Restoration of very large MOSS farm
Hi All,
Assuming that i have 1000's (thousand's) of site collections created and 100's (hundred's) of corresponding content db's in a very large farm server,
what would be the best way to backup and restore this on another farm? The databases are clustered and my WFE servers are load balanced. I have separate search server and Index server too.
Appreciate your suggestions.
Regards, Kapil
May 6th, 2010 9:21am
Essentially, you are looking at having the same number of servers on another farm as your current farm. Then use a 3rd party solution to assist with the backup and recovery process. Just to name a few:
MS Data Protection Manager EMC Legato Backup AvePoint's solution
Whatever solution you choose, it needs to be leverage VSS to take backups across all servers at a given point in time so that the data is in sync.Kanwal SharePoint Buzz
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May 7th, 2010 5:28pm
Hi Kanwal,
Is there anyway we can do this using stsadm command and create package of the backed-up sites and site collections?
What is the parameter given in the stsadm command to back up all the site collections?Regards, Kapil
May 11th, 2010 7:55am
Hi,
For the backup operator, Please refer to:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263441.aspx
Hope it is helpful!
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May 11th, 2010 1:16pm