Re: Problem deleting site after failed restore

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From: John Sivilla (JohnSivilla_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/15/04 

Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 11:55:06 -0700

Thanks for your response,

I am too aware that SMigrate is not a backup solution. I am truly using it
to migrate a site to another server and nothing more. Unfortunately,
restoring the entire site, just to migrate one site is not feasible for us.

I did find a solution however to the deletion problem. I connected to the
site through Windows Explorer and/or through the command prompt, and deleted
the folder containing the site. I got many errors about such and such a file
could not be found, but I persisted and deleted all the files and folders,
some of which simply refused to delete. After this was done as best I could,
I went back to the site and tried to delete it and it worked this time. I
suspect that the encapsulated error message that Sharepoint was sending back
was due to the errors I encountered when deleting the site through the
command line. I ended up using rmdir /S /Q and it worked beautifully.

I then was able to recreate the site, until the template page and I am now
running the restore once again.

thanks,
John

"Bill English [MVP]" wrote:

> Smigrate is really not a backup solution. I'd suggest that you restore the
> entire site, or, just create a new site and import your .fwp package into
> the new site. If the old, broken site isn't showing anywhere, then it
> doesn't hurt you to have it sitting there in your site collection.
>
> Just my $0.02.
>
> --
>
> Bill English
> www.mindsharpblogs.com
> sharepointdiscussions@yahoogroups.com
>
>
> "John Sivilla" <JohnSivilla@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:9B61A655-743A-4794-9BBC-820FCD26D9B5@microsoft.com...
> >I was migrating a sub-site to a new server using the smigrate utility. The
> > backup files were on a different machine than the web server, so after
> > runnng
> > for 10 hours, I killed the restore process. The new site was partially
> > created. I do not see the Site Settings links on the top of the page.
> >
> > I want to retry restoring the site, but I can not delete the site. I get
> > 'cannot delete folder 'sitename'. Is there anything that can be done to
> > fix
> > this without restoring the entire site collection?
> >
> > thanks,
> > John
>
>
>

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