It includes setting up a development environment, running tests, and the contribution and product process metabase follows. Open a windows powershell session by using the run as administrator option and run the following commands. We take a look at a metabase corruption when iis services do not start, the log files and iis depe. This guide will help you to create your own plan of emergency recovery for iisbased websites, migrate the configuration and websites between the servers or add a new server to the web farm.
Backup and restore iis on windows server 2016 chris lazari. We will start with the more difficult scenario, when the iis services are down, and you have to restore manually metabase, using history files. Bills iis blog how to backuprestore iis7 configuration. This article describes how to create the backup of iis web site, application pool and configuraion and restore them on another server. But both tools do not give you an access to back up files located on a disk. It will give you an error, and then ask if you want to default to use cscript. Here we see that there has been automatic backup made by iis automatically. The iis metabase explorer allows you to view the hierarchical structure of the metabase, edit the hierarchy or data values, copy or move data from one key to another, backup and restore the database and track changes made to the metabase by any application running on your system. By default, iis checks for a new version every 2 minutes and will keep 10 prior versions of the file. Iis backup management script, the iis backup management script, also saves and restores an iis configuration. The iis metabase inn iis6 is part of the servers system state, so to back it up, backup the system state, which you are most likely doing anyway.
Xml and delete sessionkey value and paste in the value from clean metabase. You will see, also, how to backup and restore metabase, using iis manager iis services have to be up and running. Vss writer failed how to restart and reregister vss writers. My research of why iis 6 could not start brought me to this thread, but restoring keys did not work for me. Restart the corresponding windows services for the writers that are down. For instances where the iis is malfunctioning, the website of a trend micro product like officescan may not work properly or even stop working. Backing up your iis 6 metabase windows server 2003. Before saving the metabase file, be sure iis has been stopped. You need to back up all the settings and configurations and restore it after. So i had to reinstall windows 2003 in order to get iis working again.
For example, to backup configuration, run the follow command. Existing applications and scripts can still call into those programmatic interfaces on iis 7. Heres where to go for help using the features included in the enterprise edition of metabase. Use the vssadmin list writers command again to show if the vss writer is now in a stable state. This guide covers how to contribute back to the metabase open source project. The iis metabase explorer is an enhanced tool which allows you to view, edit, copy, paste, move, drag, drop, and. We cannot access the mmc nor start the server to run an export. The simplest, fastest way to get business intelligence and analytics to everyone in your company. There is a ui for iis 7 manager you can download here. Backing up iis7 configuration is as simple as copying the \windows\system32\inetsrv\config directory and subdirectories into a backup directory, so you dont need anything special to do it. Reinstalling iis will fix this but you will lose all the settings and configurations of all the websites under iis. Just include this directory in whatever your oscontent backup plan is, or write a custom script to do it.
You can use the list below to find the service that corresponds to the vss writer in question. If you want to just backup the metabase file on its own, you can do so using iis manager, or by using the iisback. The process to backup and restore iis on windows server 2016 is identical to the process used in previous versions of iis. Powershell backup restore iis site and configuration. Note always back up the metabase before you edit it. In order to backup iis configuration data, you can use the command line utility appcmd. I would restart the machine but its a productions machine and would have to wait till later tonight or tomorrow morning. Unable to to access default web site on this computer. I would like to avoid this situation in the future and i was wondering if i can keep a backup of the metabase on a cd, and the next time iis crashed i simply restore the metabase from the cd. A very simple and inexpensive solution to automate the process would be to schedule iisback. Sure, you can copy that file and possibly mbschema. Because the machine key is used in case we dont provide a backup we will have to restore it to the same original machine.
It would only take backups if the configuration store is local shared configuration is not supported as of now. This guide will help you to create your own plan of emergency recovery for iis based websites, migrate the configuration and websites between the servers or add a new server to the web farm. When using iis 7 or 8, the iis metabase and iis 6 configuration compatibility are required. Log into the iis server, select your server and right click go to all tasks and select backuprestore configuration. Ensure that microsoft internet information services is installed. Perform the following tasks on the destination server.
How to backup and restore metabase in iis6 youtube. Iis 6 allows you to back up restore a current server configuration. The metabase explorer tool for modifying metabase permissions on the iis admin objects is available. Instead, use the metabase explorer tool that is included in the iis 6. Resolution repair uninstall if repair does not work for you. In this screencast, we will demonstrate how to backup and restore metabase in iis6.
How to backup and restore iis configuration to another. If this didnt work then you have to fix iis, fire following command in the same sequence. Problem statement how to backuprestore iis7 configuration in windows server. Scx file to store the schema, where x is the version number of the backup copy. This way we are creating a nonportable backup for iis 6 metabase. I was thinking of metabase explorer which used to be available for iis 6. An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the.
The iis metabase is optimized for iis and provides a hierarchal storage and fast retrieval of iis configuration properties for web sites, virtual directories, ftp sites, smtp and nntp sites. Powershell backup restore iis site and configuration david kittell november 10, 2015 vbs tool was available for download to modify the default permissions that are set on an internet information services iis metabase. Export any ssl certificates you may have installed. Recover iis7 metabase without backup solutions experts. You could use following command line to grant the aspnet account permissions to the iis metabase. Iis is installed and the default web site is accessible.
The iis configuration on the target server should then be practically identical to the source server. The save operation copies both the entire metabase and the schema of the iis server to disk on the destination computer. Once you say yes, you can start calling it from your batch files or the command line. Metabase compatibility with iis 7 and above microsoft docs. Iis metabase configuration file is automatically backup by iis, but to take manually we need to do following on the iis server. Join 40 million developers who use github issues to help identify, assign, and keep track of the features and bug fixes your projects need. Before we can use it, get to a command line and type iiscnfg and then enter.
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