My central administration backup feature was riddled with errors, with lots of incorrect content databases and paths. So I've done a clean install of SP2007 on a new server and selected which sites I wanted to transfer, as I was working on a dev environment anyway. I found that the tool used in SPDesigner 2007 was pretty handy for smaller sites which hardly had any customisation. I had a customer database which was being built but and the stsadm export tool worked like a charm. But now I have a working server and farm, I'll try out backing up and restoring a site using central administration and get back to you guys with what I have found My only grovel with this process is that any customised list, data forms or views created are not replicated exactly on the production/migration site. I'll need to go through each site to make sure that the "look and feel" is a-ok.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:14:05 +1100Subject: RE: [OzMOSS] RE: create SharePoint development same as production site I never had issues which Stefan described. I believe it will be fixed with the SP2 Michael Nemtsev | WSS MCTS, MS MVPReadify B: http://msmvps.com/blogs/laflour/ T: +61 424 184 978 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of AjaySent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 8:53 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: [OzMOSS] RE: create SharePoint development same as production site I have been using backup/restore for deployment between different environments and then I found this.... Be aware that backup/restore of MOSS content databases between server farms are not fully supported! Official documentation of this support limitation is currently in the works. The supported way to transfer content between server farms is to use STSADM -o export/import or content deployment. Backup/restore is only supported for the same server farm http://blogs.technet.com/stefan_gossner/archive/2008/03/12/common-error-situation-with-when-using-backup-restore-to-transfer-a-database-to-a-new-farm-on-moss-2007.aspx Though I haven't had the error in the above post so far and have deployed about 15 web applications so far... On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 9:09 PM, Michael Nemtsev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There is no issues if you restore you farm backup to single SharePoint instance. It will work fine. It's common scenario when you design you Disaster Recovery (DR) box, and you don't need farm there – only single instance. So you restore your backup there and set up SQL mirroring. There is no OOTB way to backup content selectively and omit some files.What you can try to do is to copy your content into new content DB and remove content of doc libraries there Michael Nemtsev | WSS MCTS, MS MVPReadify B: http://msmvps.com/blogs/laflour/ T: +61 424 184 978 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul NooneSent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 10:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [OzMOSS] RE: create SharePoint development same as production site Hi Michael, Sorry to pick up an old thread but I'm just getting ready to backup/restore our production environment to development in order to have a current version to work with. Is the GUI-based Farm backup in Central Administration smart enough to recognise different farm topology, configurations, paths, domains, ports etc., and update them? Having not gone down this road before I'm finding the unknown more than a little frightening. Also, does anyone know of a method to selectively backup content – i.e. _without_ the content in document libraries? Regards,Paul Online Developer, ICTCEO Sydney From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael NemtsevSent: Saturday, 11 October 2008 11:04 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [OzMOSS] RE: create SharePoint development same as production site What's the reason for this, why u need to copy the whole environment? Because usually you are doing it vice versa, from development to production Just make a whole farm backup on production box and restore on your box via OOTB backup/restore Michael Nemtsev | WSS MCTS, MS MVPReadify B: http://msmvps.com/blogs/laflour/ T: +61 424 184 978 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken ZhengSent: Friday, October 10, 2008 3:26 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [OzMOSS] create SharePoint development same as production site Hi All: Just want to find out what you guys do to copy the production site to the development machine, is backup/restore or import/export site or some other better way. 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