Backup IIS

Hi,

I have read in the IIS help, that informations of IIS are both situated in
the IIS metabase and in the Windows registry.
That's why I think, that restoring the whole metabase after a server-crash
wouldn't be enough to have a working IIS-configuration with all website- and
ftp-site configurations in a correct status.
Do I need to backup the registry AT THE SAME TIME as the metabase, to have a
"good" backup for the worst case?
(Of course I know, that I need to backup the website contents everytime.)

Thanks for your hint.

regards
Patrick

Re: Backup IIS

Do you have Windows Server 2003? If so, then a System State backup will
backup the metabase, registry, COM+ catalogue, etc. Your website contents
would need to specified in addition (e.g in the same backup job, or in a
different backup job)

Cheers
Ken

--
My IIS Blog: www.adOpenStatic.com/cs/blogs/ken

"Patrick D." wrote in message
news:752A2A80-0D1A-4DEC-9632-447B438C9D01@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> I have read in the IIS help, that informations of IIS are both situated in
> the IIS metabase and in the Windows registry.
> That's why I think, that restoring the whole metabase after a server-crash
> wouldn't be enough to have a working IIS-configuration with all website-
> and
> ftp-site configurations in a correct status.
> Do I need to backup the registry AT THE SAME TIME as the metabase, to have
> a
> "good" backup for the worst case?
> (Of course I know, that I need to backup the website contents everytime.)
>
> Thanks for your hint.
>
> regards
> Patrick

Re: Backup IIS

Hoi Ken

Thanks a lot for your input.

I have a virtual server of Windows 2003 on a system of SWsoft.
One cannot use the original windows backup, why I need to backup with a
different method. (Don't ask me, why this application fails.)
Can you tell me, what I need to backup separately beside the metabase, to
have the whole configuration backed up?

Thanks for your help.

regards
Patrick

"Ken Schaefer" wrote:

> Do you have Windows Server 2003? If so, then a System State backup will
> backup the metabase, registry, COM+ catalogue, etc. Your website contents
> would need to specified in addition (e.g in the same backup job, or in a
> different backup job)
>
> Cheers
> Ken
>
> --
> My IIS Blog: www.adOpenStatic.com/cs/blogs/ken
>
> "Patrick D." wrote in message
> news:752A2A80-0D1A-4DEC-9632-447B438C9D01@microsoft.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have read in the IIS help, that informations of IIS are both situated in
> > the IIS metabase and in the Windows registry.
> > That's why I think, that restoring the whole metabase after a server-crash
> > wouldn't be enough to have a working IIS-configuration with all website-
> > and
> > ftp-site configurations in a correct status.
> > Do I need to backup the registry AT THE SAME TIME as the metabase, to have
> > a
> > "good" backup for the worst case?
> > (Of course I know, that I need to backup the website contents everytime.)
> >
> > Thanks for your hint.
> >
> > regards
> > Patrick
>
>

Re: Backup IIS

Hi,

You need to backup:
a) metabase
b) TCP/IP, http.sys and IIS reg keys
c) Certificates
d) COM+ components
e) web content
f) ISAPI filters (and any configuration files they might have)
g) etc

That is why system state backup is probably your best bet..

Cheers
Ken


"Patrick D." wrote in message
news:0DC78EB2-ED74-4994-B08B-218EAF390AF3@microsoft.com...
> Hoi Ken
>
> Thanks a lot for your input.
>
> I have a virtual server of Windows 2003 on a system of SWsoft.
> One cannot use the original windows backup, why I need to backup with a
> different method. (Don't ask me, why this application fails.)
> Can you tell me, what I need to backup separately beside the metabase, to
> have the whole configuration backed up?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> regards
> Patrick
>
> "Ken Schaefer" wrote:
>
>> Do you have Windows Server 2003? If so, then a System State backup will
>> backup the metabase, registry, COM+ catalogue, etc. Your website contents
>> would need to specified in addition (e.g in the same backup job, or in a
>> different backup job)
>>
>> Cheers
>> Ken
>>
>> --
>> My IIS Blog: www.adOpenStatic.com/cs/blogs/ken
>>
>> "Patrick D." wrote in message
>> news:752A2A80-0D1A-4DEC-9632-447B438C9D01@microsoft.com...
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I have read in the IIS help, that informations of IIS are both situated
>> > in
>> > the IIS metabase and in the Windows registry.
>> > That's why I think, that restoring the whole metabase after a
>> > server-crash
>> > wouldn't be enough to have a working IIS-configuration with all
>> > website-
>> > and
>> > ftp-site configurations in a correct status.
>> > Do I need to backup the registry AT THE SAME TIME as the metabase, to
>> > have
>> > a
>> > "good" backup for the worst case?
>> > (Of course I know, that I need to backup the website contents
>> > everytime.)
>> >
>> > Thanks for your hint.
>> >
>> > regards
>> > Patrick
>>
>>