Re: SPBackup utility failing

You took time away from a holiday to jump in here and criticize both me and
the person who was already trying to help me solve my problem, and now it
turns out that it's a subject you really don't know anything about? And
you're wrong on top of that.

You get too excited about slamming people for posting in the "wrong" place,
Mike. I appreciate that you help a lot of people here, but there's obviously
a very general and widespread confusion about the two products that comprise
Sharepoint, further exacerbated by the fact that there are 5 separate
newsgroups available for asking questions.

Thanks for stepping on my thread and chasing my help away.


"Mike Walsh" wrote:

> If that's the case, I apologise profusely.
>
> Unfortunately the book I rely on to solve problems like this (the Resource
> Kit) is at work and I'm on holiday.
>
> So if anyone cares to confirm this I'd be grateful.
>
> I have always (?) assumed that stsadm and smigrate are the routines that are
> available for WSS backups / restores and I'll admit that I've come to the
> conclusion that SPBackup and SPSBackup are the same thing - just people
> spelling it (!) wrongly.
>
> Wrong again ??
>
> Mike Walsh, Helsinki, Finland
>
> "Joe" <Joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:4A5EEFC2-2B8D-4495-B182-FB8429F6676F@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > It was my understanding that SPSBackup was for the portal and SPBackup was
> > for the team sites. My problem is with SPBackup. In fact, Mike, I used
> > one
> > of your own posts from 5/5/05, in the thread "Backup and Restore Problem,"
> > in
> > my decision to post this question here.
> >
> > "Mike Walsh" wrote:
> >
> >> SP Backup is for backing up SharePoint Portal Server 2003 sites only.
> >>
> >> As such it is not covered in this newsgroup which is for standalone WSS
> >> issues and issues common to all WSS implementations.
> >>
> >> Please post it to the SPS newsgroup at
> >>
> >> microsoft.public.sharepoint.portalserver
> >>
> >> Mike Walsh, Helsinki, Finland
> >> WSS FAQ at http://wss.collutions.com
> >> Please reply to the newsgroup
> >>
> >> "Joe" <Joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> >> news:C95DA35D-F972-4913-9FD7-2B49B184D6F9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> > I've been using SPSBackup.exe to backup my portal server, and
> >> > SPBackup.exe
> >> > to
> >> > create the SPBakOut.bat file to backup my personal and team sites.
> >> >
> >> > About a week ago, SPBackup stopped working. Now, no matter what
> >> > command
> >> > line parameters I use, it generates an empty .BAT file. Prior to this,
> >> > everything had been working fine. I have SPS2003 and WSS on the same
> >> > server,
> >> > together with my SQL 2000 instance.
> >> >
> >> > If I use the last successfully-generated SPBakOut.bat file I have, the
> >> > backup works fine.
> >> >
> >> > Any ideas?
> >> >
> >> > Thanks
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>
>
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