Showing posts with label Backups. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Backups. Show all posts

Friday, November 16, 2007

IIS 7-- the adventure continues....

So I've done some more research about trying to backup sharepoint in IIS 7, and I am becoming more frustrated. Everywhere I look I am reassured that backups can be done using APPCMD, but that's just the metabase!! Sharepoint has to be able to backup the configuration files for the web sites because metabases are server specific, they cannot be restored to other servers. If sharepoint could only backup the metabase data for its web applications, then how is it possible to restore sharepoint to a different server? It's not. Therefore either it can't be restored to different servers (because it has to backup the metabase, not the configuration files), or it can be restored to a different server, and therefore, somehow, sharepoint is backing up the configuration files.

So which will it be?

Again, how do I backup individual configuration files in IIS 7?

Further, for those of you (like me) want to be able to do backup/restore in the GUI, someone has created a "module" (because IIS 7 has become "modularized") that adds backup-restore to the console. Here are a few links to get you started:

The blog post I prefer to help me set it up:
http://blogs.msdn.com/rakkimk/archive/2007/11/04/iis7-backup-restore-ui-module.aspx

THe IIS.net entry that backs it up and gives you the download:
http://www.iis.net/downloads/default.aspx?tabid=34&i=1552&g=6