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eoint · Guest

Hi,
I have been researching if it's possible to backup a portal and restore it
onto another SPS machine which is using a different SQL server. I have
practiced with backing up and restoring the database on the original SPS
machine and it works fine

When I try to do a restore on the second SPS server i get the following
message
"Local Paths or mapped drives are not allowed in a farm, UNC notation is
required"
This occurs when i select the xml file and click Open.

the content of the file is below...i would really appreciate any ideas
anyone has on this...

<SharePointPortalServerBackupManifest Version="11.0.5704.0"
BackupType="Site-All" TimeStamp="2005-01-11 15:09:31Z">
<Comment />
<Sites>
<Site Name="http://headiis018s:5996/" IsFederated="FALSE"
IsCentral="FALSE">
<Services>
<Service Type="SITEDBS"
SiteID="04986c0b-ba67-47e1-b7e3-741add398528"
SiteName="http://headiis018s:5996/" DatabaseName="Telecomm1_SITE"
ServerName="HEADIIS018S"
ApplicationName="04986c0b-ba67-47e1-b7e3-741add398528">
<Description>http://headiis018s:5996/ site database</Description>
<ImageFile>backup1-HEADIIS018S-Telecomm1_SITE.SPB</ImageFile>
<BackupStatus>SUCCEEDED</BackupStatus>
</Service>
<Service Type="PROFILEDB"
SiteID="04986c0b-ba67-47e1-b7e3-741add398528"
SiteName="http://headiis018s:5996/" DatabaseName="Telecomm1_PROF"
ServerName="HEADIIS018S"
ApplicationName="04986c0b-ba67-47e1-b7e3-741add398528">
<Description>http://headiis018s:5996/ profile database</Description>
<ImageFile>backup1-HEADIIS018S-Telecomm1_PROF.SPB</ImageFile>
<BackupStatus>SUCCEEDED</BackupStatus>
</Service>
<Service Type="SEARCHDB"
SiteID="04986c0b-ba67-47e1-b7e3-741add398528"
SiteName="http://headiis018s:5996/" DatabaseName="Telecomm1_SERV"
ServerName="HEADIIS018S"
ApplicationName="04986c0b-ba67-47e1-b7e3-741add398528">
<Description>http://headiis018s:5996/ search database</Description>
<ImageFile>backup1-HEADIIS018S-Telecomm1_SERV.SPB</ImageFile>
<BackupStatus>SUCCEEDED</BackupStatus>
</Service>
<Service Type="INDEX" SiteID="04986c0b-ba67-47e1-b7e3-741add398528"
SiteName="http://headiis018s:5996/" DatabaseName="" ServerName="HEADIIS018S"
ApplicationName="04986c0b-ba67-47e1-b7e3-741add398528" JobServer="true">
<Description>indexed content sources</Description>
<ImageFile>backup1-Telecomm1_SERV-HEADIIS018S.SPB</ImageFile>
<BackupStatus>SUCCEEDED</BackupStatus>
<SearchSchedules><?xml version='1.0'
?><IScheduledTasks><IScheduledTask
TaskName="SPS-IncrComplete-Crawl-04986c0b-ba67-47e1-b7e3-741add398528-Portal_Content.job"><ApplicationName>wscript</ApplicationName><Parameters>//e:vbscript
cscompcrawl.vbs 04986c0b-ba67-47e1-b7e3-741add398528 Portal_Content
</Parameters><WorkingDirectory>D:\Program Files\SharePoint Portal
Server\BIN\</WorkingDirectory><Priority>32</Priority><TaskFlags>0</TaskFlags><MaxRunTime>259200000</MaxRunTime><Comment></Comment><Creator>SYSTEM</Creator><Flags>0</Flags><IScheduleTrigger
Type="TriggerDaily"><BeginDay>11</BeginDay><BeginMonth>1</BeginMonth><BeginYear>2005</BeginYear><EndDay>0</EndDay><EndMonth>0</EndMonth><EndYear>0</EndYear><MinutesDuration>0</MinutesDuration><MinutesInterval>0</MinutesInterval><StartHour>3</StartHour><StartMinute>0</StartMinute><DaysInterval>1</DaysInterval></IScheduleTrigger></IScheduledTask><IScheduledTask
TaskName="SPS-Incremental-Crawl-04986c0b-ba67-47e1-b7e3-741add398528-Non_Portal_Content-CS-0.job"><ApplicationName>wscript</ApplicationName><Parameters>//e:vbscript
csinccrawl.vbs 04986c0b-ba67-47e1-b7e3-741add398528 Non_Portal_Content
0</Parameters><WorkingDirectory>D:\Program Files\SharePoint Portal
Server\BIN\</WorkingDirectory><Priority>32</Priority><TaskFlags>0</TaskFlags><MaxRunTime>259200000</MaxRunTime><Comment></Comment><Creator>SYSTEM</Creator><Flags>0</Flags><IScheduleTrigger
Type="TriggerDaily"><BeginDay>11</BeginDay><BeginMonth>1</BeginMonth><BeginYear>2005</BeginYear><EndDay>0</EndDay><EndMonth>0</EndMonth><EndYear>0</EndYear><MinutesDuration>0</MinutesDuration><MinutesInterval>0</MinutesInterval><StartHour>1</StartHour><StartMinute>0</StartMinute><DaysInterval>1</DaysInterval></IScheduleTrigger></IScheduledTask><IScheduledTask
TaskName="SPS-Incremental-Crawl-04986c0b-ba67-47e1-b7e3-741add398528-Portal_Content.job"><ApplicationName>wscript</ApplicationName><Parameters>//e:vbscript
csinccrawl.vbs 04986c0b-ba67-47e1-b7e3-741add398528 Portal_Content
</Parameters><WorkingDirectory>D:\Program Files\SharePoint Portal
Server\BIN\</WorkingDirectory><Priority>32</Priority><TaskFlags>0</TaskFlags><MaxRunTime>259200000</MaxRunTime><Comment></Comment><Creator>SYSTEM</Creator><Flags>0</Flags><IScheduleTrigger
Type="TriggerDaily"><BeginDay>11</BeginDay><BeginMonth>1</BeginMonth><BeginYear>2005</BeginYear><EndDay>0</EndDay><EndMonth>0</EndMonth><EndYear>0</EndYear><MinutesDuration>1440</MinutesDuration><MinutesInterval>10</MinutesInterval><StartHour>0</StartHour><StartMinute>0</StartMinute><DaysInterval>1</DaysInterval></IScheduleTrigger></IScheduledTask></IScheduledTasks></SearchSchedules>
</Service>
</Services>
</Site>
</Sites>
</SharePointPortalServerBackupManifest>

tedteng · Guest

It seems to me u put the sps backup file on a network drive. So try putting
the backup files on the new portal server hard drive.

br

ted

"eoint" wrote:

eoint · Guest

Thanks for the reply ted..

I am backing up the portal to a folder on the sps machine
then copying the backup files to the local drive on the new portal
and trying to run the SPS03 backup and restore

Still no joy...

Is what i'm doing actally possible?

"tedteng" wrote:

tedteng · Guest

It should be possible.

I have two environment, one dev and another pro. We did for sevral times to
backup the dev portal seevr and restore it on production portal server. also
in the contrast direction. both works.

So sorry i cannot provide further helps. Hope others have some ideas.

br
ted

"eoint" wrote:

tedteng · Guest

I checked ur spsbackup.xml

It seems ur xml have additional lines like <SearchSchedules> element which
points to

D:\Program Files\SharePoint Portal Server\BIN\

So the new server has such a folder?

br

ted

"eoint" wrote:

eoint · Guest

Hi Ted, thanks again for your help !

Got this figured out..finally
By sharing the folder and then connecting to it using its unc name i can
acccess the backup file

i.e. save the backups into a folder on the new server e.g. c:\backups
Share the folder and instead of clicking on browse from within the sps 2003
backup and restore
application type \\servername\backups\filename
the reason that I was getting the error message (I think) is that by
browsing i wasn't submitting the unc name
to the application rather it was returning the local path or if it was
across the network, the mapped drive.

Appreciate Your help

Eoin.

"tedteng" wrote:

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