Comments on: MOSS 2007 Backup/Restore Quirks and Site Migration

By: sund0wner

sund0wner — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:49:38 +0000

Great article! 1 to 1 my experience… sharepoint sucks, sometimes!

By: nasheia

nasheia — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:40:35 +0000

Thanks so much Alex!

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By: Frazierez

Frazierez — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:30:06 +0000

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By: BeerCityGal

BeerCityGal — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:14:12 +0000

Henry, do you know anything about setting up Project Server 2007 porfolio analysis views over an internet or extranet connection. Scenario is I have an internal Ip and and External IP with only certain ports opened at the firewall and no internet dns entry for a FQDN yet. Any insight you can provide would be greatly appreciated

By: Henry

Henry — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:28:45 +0000

Thanks Alex!

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:14:04 +0000

As far as I know you cannot have the same site collection added to a server farm twice (which happens when you attach a restored database to the farm). SharePoint stores site collection GUIDs in its config database, hence the limitation.

It also explains why attaching the restored database to a clean installation worked fine.

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:47:21 +0000

I ran into the same issue today. I was just testing backup and restore, so no lost data or sites.

I did a full backup.
Created a new application
Restored the content database to a new name
attached the restored content database to the new application
IISRESET
tried to browse to a known URL but received ‘site not found’

I have 2 WFE’s. site uses SSL. Moss 2007

Any ideas as to what could be the fix?