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Yes, it's safe to kill STSAdmin if it is performing a backup.
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Yes, it's safe to kill STSAdmin if it is performing a backup.

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It looks like when I did this the site remained in a &quot;locked&quot; state. I used an stsadm command to unlock the site collection and was good to go. Thanks guys!
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It looks like when I did this the site remained in a "locked" state. I used an stsadm command to unlock the site collection and was good to go. Thanks guys!

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We currently have a WSS 3.0 setup on one of our servers. I use a backup script every night to back up Sharepoint using &quot;stsadm.exe -o backup ...&quot;. For some reason last night's backup is taking forever (much longer than normal). Is it safe to just close this command prompt window to return Sharepoint to a read/write state? I don't want to break anything, but business has started and we need to be able to make changes to Sharepoint.
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We currently have a WSS 3.0 setup on one of our servers. I use a backup script every night to back up Sharepoint using "stsadm.exe -o backup ...". For some reason last night's backup is taking forever (much longer than normal). Is it safe to just close this command prompt window to return Sharepoint to a read/write state? I don't want to break anything, but business has started and we need to be able to make changes to Sharepoint.

Safe to cancel &quot;stsadm&quot; backup of WSS 3.0? For some reason it's taking FOREVER

Microsoft Sharepoint is a software platform and family of software products used for collaboration and web publishing combined. These capabilities include developing web sites, portals, intranets, content management systems, search engines, wikis, blogs, and other tools for business intelligence and collaboration. SharePoint has a Microsoft Office-like interface, and it is closely integrated with the Office suite.

Microsoft SharePoint

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).

Windows Server 2003

Servers are computing devices that are similar to desktop computers in that they have the same basic components, but are significantly different in size, configuration and purpose. Servers are usually accessed over a network, and many run unattended, without a computer monitor, input device, audio hardware or USB interfaces. Many servers do not have a graphical user interface (GUI), and are configured and managed remotely. Servers typically include hardware redundancy such as dual power supplies, RAID disk systems, and ECC memory, along with extensive pre-boot memory testing and verification. Critical components might be hot swappable, and to guard against overheating, servers might have more powerful fans or use water cooling.

Safe to cancel &quot;stsadm&quot; backup of WSS 3.0? For some reason it's taking FOREVER

Safe to cancel "stsadm" backup of WSS 3.0? For some reason it's taking FOREVER