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Backup and Restore - Cannot restore site

Asked By: Domonique Raymond Date: Oct 23, 2008 Category: MOSS Views: 334

I used following script to backup a site:

@SET SPDIR="c:\program files\common files\microsoft shared\web server
extensions\12"
@echo off
%SPDIR%\bin\stsadm -o export -url http://connected/o/ict/ -
includeusersecurity -filename D:\backup\siteict.dat -overwrite
@echo off
for /F "tokens=2-4 delims=/ " %%v in ('date /T') do (
set month=%%v
set day=%%w
set year=%%x)
ren D:\Backup\siteict.dat siteict%year%%month%%day%.dat
echo completed

I need to restore site from the backup. I created site where I want
to restore http://connected/o1/ict/restore using the script below:

@SET SPDIR="c:\program files\common files\microsoft shared\web server
extensions\12"
@echo off
%SPDIR%\bin\stsadm -o import -url http://connected/o1/ict/restore -
includeusersecurity -filename D:\backup\siteict20080115.dat
@echo off
restore section does not appear in the set URL
http://connected/o1/ict/restore, but restores to default URL
http://connected/o/ict/.

Deleted documents get restored, but not deleted site

What am i dong wrong?

I'm using MOSS 2007 SP1

Tagged:backup and restore cannot site

6 Answers Found

Answer #1 Answered By: Leanne Rios Answered On: Oct 23, 2008

So, the documents go into a different site than they were backed up
from? Trying to understand your problem. Import| export only work at the
site level. So, they will only restore content from one site to another
site.

Fwiw, export | import are very poor backup tools. They do not backup
alerts, recycle bin, and more. They are merely content migration tools
that some use for backup and restore.

Answer #2 Answered By: Zachary Roberts Answered On: Oct 23, 2008

Let me recap my problem

I used stsadm export to save a site
http://name/siteiwannabackup/subsites in a file siteiwannabackup.dat

When I use stsadm import to restore that site to different URL
http://name/iwannarestorehere/subsites nothing happens. No files,
sites or anything.

In addition, views I setup on webparts in sites
http://name/siteiwannabackup/subsites get reset to default when I run
stsadm/import.

I know stsadm is very poor backup tool. We do have Symantec Veritas
and licenses, however my network admin and Symantec China tech
support told me that our MOSS cannot be backed up using Symantec
Veritas because our web servers are 32bit and sql db is 64bit.
That's another problem I have to deal with. For now I need to restore
deleted subsite…

Answer #3 Answered By: Maura Durham Answered On: Oct 23, 2008

I'm not sure what causes the lack of anything being restored, although I
have seen it before and was never able to solveit.

But I can tell you that your second issue is a known bug with
Import/Export. All listview webparts are set back to the default view
when you import the exported site. This also happens with Site
Templates, which uses the same technology behind the scenes.

Answer #4 Answered By: Jagat Pandit Answered On: Oct 23, 2008

What do you see in your export logs? .and your import logs? .any sites,
documents, etc?

Note: We've discovered that new, unpublished documents aren't exported .the
occasional cause of "missing" documents during import.

Answer #5 Answered By: Jerod Carrillo Answered On: Oct 23, 2008

To clarify, export exports a website *and all its child web sites* and
import restores this entire website hierarchy to a particular subsite.

For import to work more reliably, we have often found it necessary to
pre-create the hierarchy of web sites in the target site collection using
the Blank team site template (STS#1).

Answer #6 Answered By: Hema Pasupuleti Answered On: Oct 23, 2008

The content migration APIs can be used to programmically *not* export
the child sites.

Checkout this MSDN sample:
msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms438819.aspx

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