Re: Export IIS & Import to DR System

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From: John Cesta (lists_at_lookwww.com)
Date: 02/23/05 

Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 14:42:40 GMT

On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 15:07:01 -0800, "Billy S."
<BillyS@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>OK I have recently been asked to create a system that will export the IIS
>metabase from my production server, modify the IP's it listens to and import
>the new setup to a DR ssystem in case something happens to our center. Well
>I wrote a perl script that did just that on a Windows 2003 system running IIS
>6.0. Here is the link the the article I posted on Perl Monks:
>
>http://www.perlmonks.com/?node_id=429955

A problem may be that the IIS settings are not ALL stored in the
metabase. Some are stored in the registry. If you miss just one small
piece your method will fail. It's best to use the features of IIS and
adsi scripts to mirror the metabase.

In other words use scripts to create items in IIS and use those same
scripts to create the items in your backup server.

John Cesta

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