Hi Daniel, Thanks for that. That's exactly the answer I was looking for.
With regards to customisations. I'm pretty sure all were deployed as solutions. Regards, Paul Online Developer, ICT CEO Sydney From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Brown Sent: Friday, 5 December 2008 9:51 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Restore WFE Hi Paul, Is the 2nd WFE server complaining about anything (logs / eventvwr)? Did the dodgy WFE have enough time to perform any updates on the databases? If not, I'd say it has a good chance of working if you just copy over the 12 hive, As 99% of SharePoint Config lays in the database, just be caution as such files like web.config for the /_layouts and others, they may cause you problems if they are different (I would expect them to be slightly different rather than 100% clones, could be wrong here tho, never actually checked), AppSettings, etc will need to be added if required also As a side/general note, this is a good example as to why solutions/features are powerful. In this situation, it would of been able to just redeploy the solutions and reactivate the features. Cheers, Daniel From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Noone Sent: Friday, 5 December 2008 9:03 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Restore WFE Hi guys, I have finished laughing and am now quietly sobbing in despair. We have a small problem. Our production environment has two web front ends. All servers are virtual machines. Someone (not me!) managed to revert one of them to a previous snapshot by clicking the REALLY BIG BUTTON on the VM window that performs this wonderful task. Upon realising the mistake we immediately shut this box down. Question: If we can't selectively restore this box (which we can't!) is it possible to just copy across the 12 hive and any custom DLLs from the other WFE? Kind regards, Paul ________________________________ List address: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Further instructions: http://www.codify.com/lists/ozmoss ________________________________ List address: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Further instructions: http://www.codify.com/lists/ozmoss List address: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Further instructions: http://www.codify.com/lists/ozmoss
