There is no issues if you restore you farm backup to single SharePoint instance. It will work fine. It's common scenario when you design you Disaster Recovery (DR) box, and you don't need farm there - only single instance. So you restore your backup there and set up SQL mirroring.
There is no OOTB way to backup content selectively and omit some files. What you can try to do is to copy your content into new content DB and remove content of doc libraries there Michael Nemtsev | WSS MCTS, MS MVP Readify B: http://msmvps.com/blogs/laflour/ T: +61 424 184 978 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Noone Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 10:40 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [OzMOSS] RE: create SharePoint development same as production site Hi Michael, Sorry to pick up an old thread but I'm just getting ready to backup/restore our production environment to development in order to have a current version to work with. Is the GUI-based Farm backup in Central Administration smart enough to recognise different farm topology, configurations, paths, domains, ports etc., and update them? Having not gone down this road before I'm finding the unknown more than a little frightening. Also, does anyone know of a method to selectively backup content - i.e. _without_ the content in document libraries? Regards, Paul Online Developer, ICT CEO Sydney From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Nemtsev Sent: Saturday, 11 October 2008 11:04 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [OzMOSS] RE: create SharePoint development same as production site What's the reason for this, why u need to copy the whole environment? Because usually you are doing it vice versa, from development to production Just make a whole farm backup on production box and restore on your box via OOTB backup/restore Michael Nemtsev | WSS MCTS, MS MVP Readify B: http://msmvps.com/blogs/laflour/ T: +61 424 184 978 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken Zheng Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 3:26 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [OzMOSS] create SharePoint development same as production site Hi All: Just want to find out what you guys do to copy the production site to the development machine, is backup/restore or import/export site or some other better way. Cheers Ken ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com
