Backup and Restore SharePoint 3.0 from/to different machines
We have a production machine and a development machine. When we backup the production machine here is the command line:
stsadm -o backup -url "https://production.xyz.com" -filename "d:\sharepointBackup\porta
Then we restore to another machine (with a different computername) like this:
-o restore -url "https://development.xyz.com" -filename "d:\sharepointBackup\porta
This works, except that the SharePoint users have to be deleted and re-created in order to work. I think this has to do with SharePoint using user SIDs instead of only user names (?).
How do I backup from one machine and restore on the other without having to delete and re-create SharePoint users?
-Geoff
stsadm -o backup -url "https://production.xyz.com" -filename "d:\sharepointBackup\porta
Then we restore to another machine (with a different computername) like this:
-o restore -url "https://development.xyz.com" -filename "d:\sharepointBackup\porta
This works, except that the SharePoint users have to be deleted and re-created in order to work. I think this has to do with SharePoint using user SIDs instead of only user names (?).
How do I backup from one machine and restore on the other without having to delete and re-create SharePoint users?
-Geoff
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Should have been 500 to start.
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I ended up using migrateuser and I wrote a program which generates a .bat file to do all of the users. Since all our SharePoint users are configured for PKI, I get my list from there.
ASKER
Ok, that's helpful. Shame on me for not RTFM.
It still doesn't answer the original question, though which, modified with the new information, is:
"How do I backup from one machine and restore on the other without having to migrate SharePoint users individually?" I'm looking for a "migrate all" or something similar.
-Geoff