Backup & restore WSS to a different server

Hi,



Hopefully someone will be able to answer my question. Basically I'm in the
process of changing my WSS server. What would be the best way to transfer
all my data (sites, user security, etc) to a new server? I have currently
200 users and I'd like to minimize the overhead. Any help would be greatly
appreciated.



Thanks

news
Fri Feb 25 10:27:01 CST 2005

Either

o Backup the content databases, restore them to the new server, and then
connect them to the new configuration databse or,

o Run stsadm.exe -o backup and stsadm.exe -o restore on each top-level site.

Jim Buyens
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"Peter Smith" wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
>
> Hopefully someone will be able to answer my question. Basically I'm in the
> process of changing my WSS server. What would be the best way to transfer
> all my data (sites, user security, etc) to a new server? I have currently
> 200 users and I'd like to minimize the overhead. Any help would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
>

Daniel
Fri Feb 25 10:34:10 CST 2005

Hi Peter,

if the SQL Server is in a different machine and it's going to remain there,
all you have to do is tell WSS to use your existing databases. This is done
during the installation process. If this is not the case, you can backup all
WSS databases and also tell WSS to use your existing databases, or you can
use the "smigrate" tool. Be aware that the users will only be restored
allong with the WSS sites if the new machine is in the same domain as the
old one.

Regards,
Daniel


"Peter Smith" <psmith@ccmail.com> wrote in message
news:eLkiUR1GFHA.400@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
>
>
> Hopefully someone will be able to answer my question. Basically I'm in the
> process of changing my WSS server. What would be the best way to transfer
> all my data (sites, user security, etc) to a new server? I have currently
> 200 users and I'd like to minimize the overhead. Any help would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>

c
Fri Feb 25 13:35:03 CST 2005

Daniel,

SMIGRATE does not handle security. It is a good tool to use to migrate
sites from Dev to QA to Prod where you don't want to copy security, but not
when moving to a new server. I agree with the SQL database option you
described.

Thanks
C



"Daniel Correa" wrote:

> Hi Peter,
>
> if the SQL Server is in a different machine and it's going to remain there,
> all you have to do is tell WSS to use your existing databases. This is done
> during the installation process. If this is not the case, you can backup all
> WSS databases and also tell WSS to use your existing databases, or you can
> use the "smigrate" tool. Be aware that the users will only be restored
> allong with the WSS sites if the new machine is in the same domain as the
> old one.
>
> Regards,
> Daniel
>
>
> "Peter Smith" <psmith@ccmail.com> wrote in message
> news:eLkiUR1GFHA.400@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> >
> > Hopefully someone will be able to answer my question. Basically I'm in the
> > process of changing my WSS server. What would be the best way to transfer
> > all my data (sites, user security, etc) to a new server? I have currently
> > 200 users and I'd like to minimize the overhead. Any help would be greatly
> > appreciated.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
>
>
>