Re: Moving SPS 2003 from one server to another.

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OK so I tried what you suggested and got this:

Monday, 12 June 2006 11:03:35 Log file opened.
11:03:35 Starting portal creation for Downer Engineering Group
11:03:35 Values used for restore: PortalUrl=http://intranet/ Virtual Server
Url=http://dc-spp01/ PortalName=Downer Engineering Group Application
Pool=MSSharePointPortalAppPool, user=DEG\spp_service SiteDB=(DC-DB01,
DownerEn1_SITE) ProfileDB=(DC-DB01, DownerEn1_PROF) ServiceDB=(DC-DB01,
DownerEn1_SERV)
11:03:35 Original values recovered: SiteCountWarning=9000
SiteCountLimit=15000 OriginalPortalUrl=http://deg-gla-spp02/
OriginalWorkspaceUrl= PortalWasFederated=FALSE PortalWasCentral=FALSE
11:03:35 Enter RecoverSite()
11:03:35 Portal creation failed System.ApplicationException: A portal site
already exists with the same ID as the one contained in the database being
used for portal recovery. at Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.Admin.c.a() at
Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.Admin.c.f()
11:03:35 Enter SearchConfigure()

Where did I go wrong?

I am going to keep trying but if you are watching today please get back to
me asap. I need to have this sorted before tomorrow.

Kind regards,

David Buckley

:(


"Shane Young [SPS MVP]" wrote:

Pretty close to that simple.

Install SharePoint on the new server. Create a new configuration database
on your existing SQL server. Then click create a portal and then choose
restore a portal. Now point it at the 3 databases. Viola! You are done.
Depending on the you have made you may have some clean up to do. You will
also need to redraw all of your indexes but nothing too major.

Hope this helps

--
Shane Young - SPS MVP
SharePoint911 - http://www.SharePoint911.com
Blog - http://msmvps.com/shane/



"David Buckley" <DavidBuckley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Yeah sorry about that it was very late after a long long day. Thanks for
the
quick reply.

We have one SPP server that has the data base on another server.

The sharepoint server has Microsoft Windows Sharepoint Services 2.0 with
SP2
and Microsoft Office Sharepoint Portal Server 2003 installed. The server
is
2003 std with SP1. The database server is 2003 server std and the MS-SQL
instance is SQL server 2000.

What would be absolutely perfect is if I can just install WSS and SPS on
another box and just point it to the same database instance, but I don't
think that anything is going to be that simple.

:)

Thanks again in advance.

David Buckley.
Infrastructure Team,
Information Systems Division,
XYZ Company.


"Shane Young [SPS MVP]" wrote:

What is your current setup? Is everything on one box? do you have the
SQL
portion on its own server? Do you have multiple SPS servers? Hard to
point
you in the right direction without knowing your details. :)

--
Shane Young - SPS MVP
SharePoint911 - http://www.SharePoint911.com
Blog - http://msmvps.com/shane/



"David Buckley" <DavidBuckley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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All,

This is the story. We are moving our data centre to an offsite managed
facility. As part of this process we are replacing a large number of
our
servers. One of these is our Sharepoint box. What I now need to do is
migrate
the contents of our intranet from the old box to the new. I have done a
quick
scan of the microsoft site and cannot find anything yet that matches my
scenario for migration.

What I would really like to find is a cookbook on how to move from one
box
to another without breaking anything. If anyone knows where I can find
any
of
this stuff please reply to this post and point me in the right
direction.

Thanks in advance.

David Buckley.
Infrastructure Team,
Information Systems Division,
XYZ Company.







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