Tuesday, June 27, 2006 9:57 AM
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WSS V.3 - Backup and Restore
For those who are using WSS Version 2, you will know one of the lacking features is the backup and restore capability. The recommended way is to perform a backup via the command line (i.e. stsadm.exe)
In the new version (WSS Version 2, B2), a proper UI will be provided for us to perform backup and restore functions.
Here is a screenshot, when the backup job is on the run.....
Some notes:
- Remember to give networkservice service account permission to the directory where the backup file is going to be store. Else you will get the "Access to the path - c:\backup\spbrtoc.xml is denied" error.
- One missing feature is still the scheduled backup. The backup and restore UI is good for adminstrator's ad-hoc backup and restore operations. If you will want to perform a scheduled backup, it will be back to the command line world.
e.g. stsadm.exe -o backup -directory c:\backup -backupmethod full (or differential)
and the stsadm.exe can now be found @ C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN
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