As I discussed in an earlier article backup/restore between farms for publishing sites was unsupported due to the fact that MOSS often stores absolute URLs to the Page Layout in the properties of a Publishing Page. Workarounds had to be used to adjust the incorrect URL after a restore to ensure that no exceptions occurred. […]
An important KB article has been released today discussing a problem in WSS which can lead to database inconsistencies when using STSADM -o MergeContentDB. It is highly recommended to backup as well the source and the destination databases before performing this operation to be able to rollback to a consistent state in case that a […]
In the past I have seen the following problem a couple of times: a customer creates a backup of a content database on one server farm (e.g. using STSADM -o backup or a DB backup in SQL) and restores the backup on a different farm and attaches the content database to a web application. After […]
