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From: chang on 5 Sep 2006 12:36
Thanks for the fast response.

Did as you suggested. Deleted the new portal from Server B, and then delete
the 3 databases. Did a restore and all seems good. Then half way through
the process I get the error. "ERROR: Exception of type
Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.Insatll.DuplicateDirectoryException was thrown."

Any ideas?

"Lutt" wrote:

> At step 5, you need to delete the new portal on server B, then Delete
> content database instead of detach them.
>
> Ting
>
> chang wrote:
> > I need help in moving Sharepoint Portal from an old server (Server A) to a
> > new server (Server B). I had tried moving it to a test machine without no
> > success. I had followed many documentation on how to move databases from the
> > old server (Server A) to the new server (Server B), but the problem is that
> > Sharepoint keeps telling me that the database I had is different.
> >
> > Here's the step that I had done so far:
> > 1) Install SQL Server 2000 and update to SP3 on new server (Server B)
> > 2) Install SPS 2003 and WSS 2.0, update to SP1 (Old server has SP1)
> > 3) Backup the files from "C:\Progrm Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web
> > server extensions\60" and any files that I had modified from old server
> > (Server A)
> > 4) Use SPSBackup.exe to backup the entire Portal and WSS site collections
> > (Server A)
> > 5) Detach databases NewSite1_SITE, NewSite1_PROF, NewSite1_SERV from new
> > Server (Server B) that it has created when first going to Sharepoint
> > Administration page
> > 6) Go to Sharepoint Backup and Restore utility to restore Portal and WSS
> > within new server (Server B)
> > 7) From Restore tab, browse to XML file to do the restore
> > 8) Go to edit parameter for new server
> > 9) No IIS Virtual server available.
> >
> > This is one way I try to move the portal and databases. So when I get to
> > step 9, since there's no virtual server I can't do anything else here.
> >
> > Other steps I had taken is detaching the databases from old server and
> > attaching it to the new server and then go to Sharepoint Administration from
> > new server and try to set the databases content and virtusl server settings,
> > but still no luck.
> >
> > Anyone that has successfully move one portal from an old server to a new one
> > including databases and branding of portal, please help me out? I'm pretty
> > sure there is something I must be missing, because no matter what I do, I
> > always end up with some kind of errors.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
>
>
From: Lutt on 5 Sep 2006 13:04
Did you delete the content database using SharePoint central admin
page? You cannot delete them from sql manager.

Central Admin->WSS->configure virtual server settings->Select your
server->manage content database.

Ting
chang wrote:
> Thanks for the fast response.
>
> Did as you suggested. Deleted the new portal from Server B, and then delete
> the 3 databases. Did a restore and all seems good. Then half way through
> the process I get the error. "ERROR: Exception of type
> Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.Insatll.DuplicateDirectoryException was thrown."
>
> Any ideas?
>
> "Lutt" wrote:
>
> > At step 5, you need to delete the new portal on server B, then Delete
> > content database instead of detach them.
> >
> > Ting
> >
> > chang wrote:
> > > I need help in moving Sharepoint Portal from an old server (Server A) to a
> > > new server (Server B). I had tried moving it to a test machine without no
> > > success. I had followed many documentation on how to move databases from the
> > > old server (Server A) to the new server (Server B), but the problem is that
> > > Sharepoint keeps telling me that the database I had is different.
> > >
> > > Here's the step that I had done so far:
> > > 1) Install SQL Server 2000 and update to SP3 on new server (Server B)
> > > 2) Install SPS 2003 and WSS 2.0, update to SP1 (Old server has SP1)
> > > 3) Backup the files from "C:\Progrm Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web
> > > server extensions\60" and any files that I had modified from old server
> > > (Server A)
> > > 4) Use SPSBackup.exe to backup the entire Portal and WSS site collections
> > > (Server A)
> > > 5) Detach databases NewSite1_SITE, NewSite1_PROF, NewSite1_SERV from new
> > > Server (Server B) that it has created when first going to Sharepoint
> > > Administration page
> > > 6) Go to Sharepoint Backup and Restore utility to restore Portal and WSS
> > > within new server (Server B)
> > > 7) From Restore tab, browse to XML file to do the restore
> > > 8) Go to edit parameter for new server
> > > 9) No IIS Virtual server available.
> > >
> > > This is one way I try to move the portal and databases. So when I get to
> > > step 9, since there's no virtual server I can't do anything else here.
> > >
> > > Other steps I had taken is detaching the databases from old server and
> > > attaching it to the new server and then go to Sharepoint Administration from
> > > new server and try to set the databases content and virtusl server settings,
> > > but still no luck.
> > >
> > > Anyone that has successfully move one portal from an old server to a new one
> > > including databases and branding of portal, please help me out? I'm pretty
> > > sure there is something I must be missing, because no matter what I do, I
> > > always end up with some kind of errors.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance.
> >
> >

From: chang on 5 Sep 2006 13:51
Thanks Lutt. I deleted the databases manually from Enterprise Manager, but
was able to get it to work regardless of the error. Not sure what difference
this will make in the future. What I did after I deleted the Portal from
Sharepoint Administration and then manually deleted the 3 databases from
Enterprise Manager, I was able to do the restore but with the error. However
I went and recreate the portal and point to those databases. Reboot the
server and everything is there how I want it to be. An exact duplicate of
the portal within the old server.

Thanks again for your help.

"Lutt" wrote:

> Did you delete the content database using SharePoint central admin
> page? You cannot delete them from sql manager.
>
> Central Admin->WSS->configure virtual server settings->Select your
> server->manage content database.
>
> Ting
> chang wrote:
> > Thanks for the fast response.
> >
> > Did as you suggested. Deleted the new portal from Server B, and then delete
> > the 3 databases. Did a restore and all seems good. Then half way through
> > the process I get the error. "ERROR: Exception of type
> > Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.Insatll.DuplicateDirectoryException was thrown."
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > "Lutt" wrote:
> >
> > > At step 5, you need to delete the new portal on server B, then Delete
> > > content database instead of detach them.
> > >
> > > Ting
> > >
> > > chang wrote:
> > > > I need help in moving Sharepoint Portal from an old server (Server A) to a
> > > > new server (Server B). I had tried moving it to a test machine without no
> > > > success. I had followed many documentation on how to move databases from the
> > > > old server (Server A) to the new server (Server B), but the problem is that
> > > > Sharepoint keeps telling me that the database I had is different.
> > > >
> > > > Here's the step that I had done so far:
> > > > 1) Install SQL Server 2000 and update to SP3 on new server (Server B)
> > > > 2) Install SPS 2003 and WSS 2.0, update to SP1 (Old server has SP1)
> > > > 3) Backup the files from "C:\Progrm Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web
> > > > server extensions\60" and any files that I had modified from old server
> > > > (Server A)
> > > > 4) Use SPSBackup.exe to backup the entire Portal and WSS site collections
> > > > (Server A)
> > > > 5) Detach databases NewSite1_SITE, NewSite1_PROF, NewSite1_SERV from new
> > > > Server (Server B) that it has created when first going to Sharepoint
> > > > Administration page
> > > > 6) Go to Sharepoint Backup and Restore utility to restore Portal and WSS
> > > > within new server (Server B)
> > > > 7) From Restore tab, browse to XML file to do the restore
> > > > 8) Go to edit parameter for new server
> > > > 9) No IIS Virtual server available.
> > > >
> > > > This is one way I try to move the portal and databases. So when I get to
> > > > step 9, since there's no virtual server I can't do anything else here.
> > > >
> > > > Other steps I had taken is detaching the databases from old server and
> > > > attaching it to the new server and then go to Sharepoint Administration from
> > > > new server and try to set the databases content and virtusl server settings,
> > > > but still no luck.
> > > >
> > > > Anyone that has successfully move one portal from an old server to a new one
> > > > including databases and branding of portal, please help me out? I'm pretty
> > > > sure there is something I must be missing, because no matter what I do, I
> > > > always end up with some kind of errors.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance.
> > >
> > >
>
>
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