RE: [OzMOSS] Recovering data from a dead site

[Aaron Saikovski]

Hi Matt,
You can try to restore the backups to a new site and recover the documents that 
way. Not fun but should work.

That is create a new site, do a restore and you should be fine.

or you can try a tool such as Tzunami (i think that what it was called) that 
might help.

hth.

Aaron

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Subject: [OzMOSS] Recovering data from a dead site

Hi everyone,

I’ve been given the ungodly task of recovering documents from a dead sharepoint 
installation.  They have the database files for the site, but the configuration 
database is gone and is not coming back.   Does anyone know if there is a tool 
available to extract the documents from the DB?

Cheers,


Matt
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RE: [OzMOSS] Recovering data from a dead site

[Dave Porter]

You can also try the addcontentdb to an existing site collection and try to 
recover that way as well.


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BTW the Sharepoint utility suite had a Document recovery tool; not sure if it 
works for MOSS but the source code was available  too; wouldn’t be that 
different.
 

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SaikovskiSent: Friday, 16 November 2007 9:55 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: RE: 
[OzMOSS] Recovering data from a dead site
 

Hi Matt,

You could try creating a VM with a blank site and copy the dbs to that. Then 
try connecting to your content databases from the admin.

Theoretically that should work.

 

Cheers,

Aaron




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Recovering data from a dead site


Hi Aaron,
 
Thanks for the tip.  I’m on a client site where the only backups were done at 
SQL level, not through STS admin and even then not every file was backed up.  
Not fun…
 
I’ve been building up a VM which *should* have a similar configuration as the 
old site. I’m about to see if you can create a empty site with the same name 
and switch the database files while the service is offline.
Tzunami looks neat, though it doesn’t mention anything about fixing broken 
installs, mainly about creating/migration new sites.  
 
Cheers,
 
 
Matt
 


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SaikovskiSent: Friday, 16 November 2007 9:01 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: RE: 
[OzMOSS] Recovering data from a dead site
 

Hi Matt,

You can try to restore the backups to a new site and recover the documents that 
way. Not fun but should work.

 

That is create a new site, do a restore and you should be fine.

 

or you can try a tool such as Tzunami (i think that what it was called) that 
might help.

 

hth.

 

Aaron




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Hi everyone,
 
I’ve been given the ungodly task of recovering documents from a dead sharepoint 
installation.  They have the database files for the site, but the configuration 
database is gone and is not coming back.   Does anyone know if there is a tool 
available to extract the documents from the DB?
 
Cheers,
 
 
Matt
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RE: [OzMOSS] Recovering data from a dead site

[Aaron Tamblyn]

If you just want to pull the documents only from the dead site then
check out this blog posting on how to pull them directly from the db.
Doing this you could avoid having to muck around adding the db as a
content db in SharePoint.

 

http://blog.plaxoed.com/2006/11/02/little-tool-to-extract-all-files-out-
of-sharepoint/

 

 

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Of Matt Lynch
Sent: Friday, 16 November 2007 8:56 AM
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Subject: [OzMOSS] Recovering data from a dead site

 

Hi everyone,

 

I've been given the ungodly task of recovering documents from a dead
sharepoint installation.  They have the database files for the site, but
the configuration database is gone and is not coming back.   Does anyone
know if there is a tool available to extract the documents from the DB?

 

Cheers,

 

 

Matt

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RE: [OzMOSS] RE: Best practises

[Brian H. Madsen]

Thanks guys,
 
seems the list is getting busy again. A bit of traffic happening this week.
 
I'll send one email with a reply to everybody that's responded instead of 
flooding the mail server with replies from me.
 
Ishai: I'm assuming that the reason for this is that each job is pretty much a 
custom job. Still, as migrations go, i'm just surprised that nobody seems to 
have a "general" path that needs to be taken.
 
Dave: you mention a feature/solution...you mean a third party tool/application? 
you have a preference?
 
Aaron: I agree with you on the term - unfortunately it's a 
Buzzword/Buzzsomething that everybody seems to be able to relate to. Thanks for 
the tips on Bill English - will check out what he has to say.
 
Sezai: thanks for the link, will read through that as well..looks like the best 
way to proceed from here is really just to start from scratch and do a 
trial/error approach, padded with the info i can find from Bill English's 
articles and the link you provided.
 
General: 
 
Why is it there's such a large "gap" in terms of doing a MOSS migration? 
Seriously, the application isn't completely ad-hoc and does have some standards 
across the board.
 
Anyways, will take the advise on board and work from there..cheers!



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Sent: Fri 11/16/2007 8:44 AM
To: listserver@ozMOSS.com
Subject: [OzMOSS] RE: Best practises



Yes, each migration job will most likely be custom and migrations vary between 
different implementations of systems.

 

Even migrating from something like MCMS can vary quite a bit between 
implementations, a lot of MCMS sites have components built differently, with 
strange implementations of subsystems using CMS PAPI. 

 

If your organisation is likely to do many of the same type of system migration 
to MOSS, you can reuse your migration process and refine it and get some reuse 
of any custom code you may have developed.



As for best practice? I guess you can apply the best practice of any migration 
project - http://www.esj.com/news/article.aspx?EditorialsID=1918 

Sezai Kömür
Senior Developer  -  Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist  -  
http://www.moss2007.com.au/

 

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Subject: [OzMOSS] RE: Best practises

 

Nope. There are no best practices and everyone makes up his own depending on 
what you want to migrate.

 

 

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Sent: Friday, 16 November 2007 9:41 AM
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Subject: [OzMOSS] Best practises

 

Hi Guys,

 

Lately i've been wondering if there's such as thing as MOSS to MOSS Migration 
Best Practises?

 

It seems that everybody has a solution/suggestion on how it's best done but 
insofar as i can see there's no "connect" between suggestions.

 

As i'm sure i'll be doing a lot of migration work in the near future i was 
wondering if anybody has any further info lying around on the topic? oh, that 
they're willing to share that is :)

 

Regards

Brian H. Madsen

Microsoft MVP Visual Developer ASP.Net

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[OzMOSS] Search Server 2008

[Matt Lynch]

Hi Guys,

 

I was just wondering if anyone is playing with Microsoft's new Search Server
2008 Express Beta.  IMHO, this is the best search engine that Microsoft has
ever put out, and it's what Index Server should have been.  I'm using it as
my desktop search, purely because it doesn't eat the CPU like windows search
does.

 

There are several issues with it at the moment, though they are mainly
around the setup process.  Oh, and while it is a customised sharepoint
instance, it's can't be part of a farm (at the moment).

 

Is anyone else developing on this product? 

 

Cheers,

 

Matt.

PS.  The WSS install I had to fix this morning is running like a charm.
Thanks for all of your input..

 

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[OzMOSS] RE: Best practises

[Aaron Saikovski]

Hi Brian,
I am not a fan of the term "best practices" as I have my own reasons for that.
I guess for doing the migration you can have a look at some of the articles 
that Bill English has written around this and shape it to your particular needs.
It all depends on the environment but having a set of guidelines to start with 
and go from there is a great start.

hth,
Aaron


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Subject: [OzMOSS] Best practises

Hi Guys,

Lately i've been wondering if there's such as thing as MOSS to MOSS Migration 
Best Practises?

It seems that everybody has a solution/suggestion on how it's best done but 
insofar as i can see there's no "connect" between suggestions.

As i'm sure i'll be doing a lot of migration work in the near future i was 
wondering if anybody has any further info lying around on the topic? oh, that 
they're willing to share that is :)

Regards
Brian H. Madsen
Microsoft MVP Visual Developer ASP.Net
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