Reinstaling IIS and restoring websites

I accidentally deleted my Windows 2003 default web site. My metadata is very
old and does not contain both my current websites and the old. My
understanding is I need to reinstall IIS. I am concerned when I do this I
will lose my 15+ configured web sites. The problem is if I crate a backup
now it will not have my root web; if I were to restore a metadata backup
once my rootweb has been reinstalled will this overwrite the root?
In short I need to get my root web back and not take out all of my existing
web sites. No metadata exists with both my root web and my websites. I can
create a backup now which contains all of my websites then restore one of my
old metadata at which point I would have my root web. Could I then restore a
newer metadata without the root web and not overwrite the root web but
return all of my websites? Have I been redundant enough :)
Thanks

jcochran
Fri Jun 04 16:55:33 CDT 2004

On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 13:41:30 -0700, "MEI" <MEI@MEI.COM> wrote:

>I accidentally deleted my Windows 2003 default web site. My metadata is very
>old and does not contain both my current websites and the old. My
>understanding is I need to reinstall IIS. I am concerned when I do this I
>will lose my 15+ configured web sites. The problem is if I crate a backup
>now it will not have my root web; if I were to restore a metadata backup
>once my rootweb has been reinstalled will this overwrite the root?
>In short I need to get my root web back and not take out all of my existing
>web sites. No metadata exists with both my root web and my websites. I can
>create a backup now which contains all of my websites then restore one of my
>old metadata at which point I would have my root web. Could I then restore a
>newer metadata without the root web and not overwrite the root web but
>return all of my websites? Have I been redundant enough :)

There's nothing special about the default site. Just create a new
site and restore the content. You won't need to reinstall IIS, and if
you restore a metabase backup you'll get whatever was there when you
backed it up.

Jeff

Kristofer
Sat Jun 05 01:48:09 CDT 2004

The Default Web Site is not any special, and you only need to create a new
one if you need it.

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Regards,
Kristofer Gafvert - IIS MVP
http://www.ilopia.com - When you need help!


"MEI" <MEI@MEI.COM> wrote in message
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> I accidentally deleted my Windows 2003 default web site. My metadata is
very
> old and does not contain both my current websites and the old. My
> understanding is I need to reinstall IIS. I am concerned when I do this I
> will lose my 15+ configured web sites. The problem is if I crate a backup
> now it will not have my root web; if I were to restore a metadata backup
> once my rootweb has been reinstalled will this overwrite the root?
> In short I need to get my root web back and not take out all of my
existing
> web sites. No metadata exists with both my root web and my websites. I can
> create a backup now which contains all of my websites then restore one of
my
> old metadata at which point I would have my root web. Could I then restore
a
> newer metadata without the root web and not overwrite the root web but
> return all of my websites? Have I been redundant enough :)
> Thanks
>
>