Passwords in this case are stored in the Registry so you'd want to just make a System State backup. I expect that will also get you the IIS Metabase so you'd have everything you need to restore. Why don't you just schedule a Windows Server Backup run once a night and grab that with your normal backup mechanism (or install the agent and backup directly)?
Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com w – 312.625.1438 | c – 312.731.3132 -----Original Message----- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 7:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: FTP site configuration backups All, I'm looking for ideas on backing up the configuration of an FTP server in our DMZ. I'm not worried much about the files in the user directories, but want to find a way to get the user configs (with passwords), ftp site configuration and directory structure, including perms, so that I could do a restore and get the site up and running if the machine crashes out. I suppose a backup to disk with a USB drive is possible, but it seems like less than good alternative. As a crutch, I've started populating the description fields in the user accounts with their passwords, but feel a but queasy about it. The machine is running Win2k8 R2 Web edition, if that matters any. Is there a way I could do something like dump the data I want to disk, then email it or copy it to another machine in the DMZ - perhaps using powershell? I'm definitely not up on ftp site configuration in Windows, so any thoughts here would be appreciated. Thanks, Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
