Re: Restoring CompanyWeb

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Hey Chad,

It was the same hardware. I rebuilt the RAID array, installed SBS fron the
ground up, gave the machine the same computer name and domain as previous,
and then installed all the latest service packs and patches. I then restored
using NTBACKUP and my last night's backup data.

I'm not sure if its 2 or 3: how would I tell? Its SBS Standard Edition if
that helps.

My only backups are via NTBackup: I wasn't aware there are any other backup
methods.

- Pasta

"Chad A Gross" wrote:

Ok, how did you restore your server? Was it a full bare-metal restore (e.g.
install the base operating system, then use NTBackup to restore all
partitions, system state, etc.) - or did you completely re-install SBS then
selectively restore data from backup?

Is this SharePoint 2.0 or SharePoint 3.0?

Do you have any native SharePoint backups (using stsadm or smigrate)?

--

Chad A Gross
http://www.msmvps.com/blogs/cgross

"Psychopasta" <Psychopasta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,

My SBS 2003 Standard machine version suffered a RAID array failure, and I
have just reinstalled SBS and restored from backup. Amazingly, its all
gone
remarkably well, but I made one mistake in re-installing the server.

When I originally installed SBS I told the installer to load Sharepoint
into
the H: folder, and when I did my reinstall I forgot, and told it to use
the
C: folder. As a result, when we open up companyweb, we see the default
installation, i.e. a brand new blank companyweb, while all the data,
nicely
restored, is laughing at me on the H drive.

How do I tell SharePoint where to look for the data files?

I really appreciate your help. I am so close to a full restore...

- Pasta.



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