Wow! I was not aware of this - Be aware that backup/restore of MOSS content databases between server farms are not fully supported! Official documentation of this support limitation is currently in the works. The supported way to transfer content between server farms is to use STSADM -o export/import or content deployment. Backup/restore is only supported for the same server farm. So the only fully supported manner of transferring content between farms is STSADM -o export/import or content deployment
... I've been using SQL Backup/Restore OR STSADM -o backup/restore all this time From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aaron Saikovski Sent: Tuesday, 22 April 2008 11:34 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [OzMOSS] Moving site content Hi Anthony, I had this problem recently and found that an export and import works the best. Check out: http://blogs.technet.com/stefan_gossner/archive/2008/03/12/common-error-situation-with-when-using-backup-restore-to-transfer-a-database-to-a-new-farm-on-moss-2007.aspx http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc261866.aspx http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262759.aspx Cheers, Aaron From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anthony Hughes Sent: Tuesday, 22 April 2008 12:18 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [OzMOSS] Moving site content Hey All, Just wondering on the best course of action for the following. I will be be moving content from my testing domain to a production domain I've read around that I should use stsadm backup and restore commands. Will this migrate all of the sites within the specified site collection and style libraries etc (will I loose the master page customisation)? To do this should I use a different procedure. Also wondering how it goes joining the new domain as it will have no way of authenticating against the old one? IMPORTANT - Please consider our environment before printing this email. This email and any attachments are confidential and may be legally privileged in which case neither is intended to be waived or lost by mistaken delivery to you. If you have received this message in error, please notify us and remove it from your system. If you are not the intended recipient, any unauthorised use is expressly prohibited. It is your responsibility to check any attachments for viruses and defects before opening or sending them on. Minter Ellison collects personal information to provide and market our services. For more information about use, disclosure and access, see our privacy policy at http://www.minterellison.com ------------------------------------------------------------------- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com ------------------------------------------------------------------- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com ------------------------------------------------------------------- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com
