Recently I had to make a SharePoint test farm at a customer site completely identical to the production farm. Therefore I backed up all production databases (including the Config and Admin databases) and restored them to the SQL server in the test environment.
Before I use the Configuration Wizard to disconnect the test servers from the [...]
Continue reading about SharePoint backup and restore database trick
In remembrance of one of my math teachers back at school who always said KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) I made a very simple and quick backup script for a SharePoint portal at a customer test farm. When scheduled right it makes a backup, lets say, every hour and renames older backup files.
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CD BACKUP
IF NOT EXIST [...]
We didn’t do a stsadm export import (see previous post), but used the backup and restore commands instead. This has some consequences which I shall list here. After I had restored my backup file with command ”stsadm -o restore -url http://<destination-url> -filename backup.dat -overwrite” (the overwrite option is very important) I had to reset some settings [...]
