files physically on the disc

Hi!

Can anyone explain me where exacly I can find physical files (documents)
that are uploaded to SharePoint team site? Tried windows search on
sharepoint server but didn't find anything.
Or are the files stored in database???

Thanks,

Armands

Mike
Fri Mar 18 12:50:36 CST 2005

All the documents uploaded to the WSS site are indeed all stored in the
database (unlike STS where they were in the file system)

Mike Walsh, Helsinki, Finland
WSS FAQ at http://wss.collutions.com
Please post questions to the newsgroup only.


"Armands Brants" <armands.brants@navigator.lv> wrote in message
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> Hi!
>
> Can anyone explain me where exacly I can find physical files (documents)
> that are uploaded to SharePoint team site? Tried windows search on
> sharepoint server but didn't find anything.
> Or are the files stored in database???
>
> Thanks,
>
> Armands
>
>

Todd
Fri Mar 18 13:59:51 CST 2005

To build on Mike's answer, they are in the "Docs" table of the ContentDB the
site is in. If you want to pull a specific document out of the database,
you can use the tool TEXTCOPY on your SQL server. I've restored quite a few
documents that way and after you get the syntax down, it's pretty easy to
use.

tk
"Mike Walsh" <englantilainen@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> All the documents uploaded to the WSS site are indeed all stored in the
> database (unlike STS where they were in the file system)
>
> Mike Walsh, Helsinki, Finland
> WSS FAQ at http://wss.collutions.com
> Please post questions to the newsgroup only.
>
>
> "Armands Brants" <armands.brants@navigator.lv> wrote in message
> news:#CVyuH9KFHA.2540@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>> Hi!
>>
>> Can anyone explain me where exacly I can find physical files (documents)
>> that are uploaded to SharePoint team site? Tried windows search on
>> sharepoint server but didn't find anything.
>> Or are the files stored in database???
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Armands
>>
>>
>
>

clytwyn
Wed Apr 13 15:38:40 CDT 2005

So how would one go about actually backing these files up? Would you
just do a back up of the sharepoint database then?

Mike
Wed Apr 13 23:31:58 CDT 2005

For WSS:

1. SQL Server backup to a local server disk (preferably a different one to
where the SQL Server databases are.

followed by

2. Full Disk backup.

Add the following option

3. smigrate backup copy

if you want to more quickly (than using the full backup) be able to recover
files some i***t user has deleted.

Mike Walsh, Helsinki, Finland

"Chris" <clytwyn@shaw.ca> wrote in message
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> So how would one go about actually backing these files up? Would you
> just do a back up of the sharepoint database then?