Re: WSS 2.0 to 3.0 upgrade

Hi Greg,

I've had similar frustrations. I setup a test server with my WSS2 app, about
2.5GB in size, and dealt with the very annoying migration process.
Ultimately, I got it down to a few easy steps, with the longest being the
time it took for the database to attach. I have since upgraded 3 other sites
for customers and have a few more in the line up.

Keep me posted, I'll see if I can help.
Thanks,
David

"Greg Tompkins" wrote:

I don't know. I am starting all over again from scratch. I'm installing the
Windows 2003 server, the SQL Server, restoring from backup to WSS 2.0, then
try to attach to my 3.0 server again. I am starting to think Sharepoint is a
complete kludge.


"David Lozzi" <dlozzi(remote-this)@delphi-ts.com> wrote in message
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What were the errors?

"Greg Tompkins" wrote:

Hi All,

I think I am getting somewhere.....

I ran this command to attach my 2.0 contentDB to WSS 3.0:

STSADM -o addcontentdb -url http://MYSERVER -databaseserver
MYDATABASESERVER -databasename MYDATABASENAME

It took almost 15 minutes but completed successfully. I checked the
upgrade.log file and it only registered three errors, which isn't bad
considering the size of my database.

HOWEVER.....

When I go to Central Administration > Application Management > Content
Databases I am not seeing my database attached. If I try to attach it
here, I get an error saying to use the STSADM command!

So I am running in a circle.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

--GREG--






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