Backup and Restore Procedures

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PinkBishop

Hello All!

Anybody care to share their recommended procedure for backing up all
webs and restoring them in case of a meltdown?


This is my plan. Please let me know if this will work.

Backup

1. Publish all webs to a local web http://mywebs as subwebs
2. Burn wwwroot folder and all subfolders to CD

Restore

1. Copy wwwroot folder from CD back to http://mywebs
2. Publish each subweb back to remote host as needed.

If there are any more detailed procedures posted somewhere please
post.


Thanks
 
I start with a copy of the web on disk. When I have the pages or any
modifications the way I like them, and only then, I publish the web to
the server (which is not local).

After each update, I use a batch file to update copies of all folders
and files in a WinZip file on a second hard drive (a lot faster than
burning). About once every month or two, I rename the zip file to a date
(Webname-Feb2004.zip) and run the batch file again to create a new zip
file.

Periodically, when I have the time, I burn all copies to a CD.

The advantage of this is I always have a recent backup - if something
gets royally scrambled, I have a backup of a month ago or so - and if
something happens to both hard drives, I have CD backups.

Probably overkill but the idea of starting over or having to burn a CD
every day or two seems like more work to me.
 
David,

Thanks for the reply.

I like your method, but lack ability in writing batch files to make
the zip files.

I am sure with a little practice I could get it down. Damn.. that
would take me back about 10 years before WinZip! Back in the day when
we had to do pkzip through command lines!

I guess by concern is the restore right now. Will a simple copy from
CD to a HD be complete or will there be other files in FP that won't
be backed up properly as I described in my original post?

Thanks,
Tom
 
I use a 2nd HD on my Windows 2003 Server with Windows NT Backup to backup
all of my web and other files each morning at 7 AM. This way it take less
than 5 minutes to restore any file or web.

FYI: If you use Windows 2000 or XP, NT Backup is available on your Windows
CD.
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Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
WEBMASTER Resources(tm)

FrontPage Resources, WebCircle,
MS KB Quick Links, etc.
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If you copy to CD and then back to your HD, you have copy the files from the
CD to a folder, then remove all read-only attributes, via Windows Explorer,
then you have to open the folder in FP, and publish to the correct location
on your HD. Using a zip file, eliminates read-only attribute issue.

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==============================================
Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
WEBMASTER Resources(tm)

FrontPage Resources, WebCircle,
MS KB Quick Links, etc.
==============================================
 
If you download the free command line add-on for WinZip it's quite easy:
This is my batch file (the flags insure that only files needing updating
are added (and replaced) and that the folder names are stored to make it
easier to do a restore if necessary. Edit in notepad to reflect where
you want the file stored and the source folder names, and save it with
the extension .bat - then just double click to run it:

rem @echo off
wzzip -u d:\Backup\Psychlinks.zip "C:\Psychlinks\*.*"
wzzip -u -P -r d:\Backup\Psychlinks.zip "C:\Psychlinks\pages\*.*"
wzzip -u -P -r d:\Backup\Psychlinks.zip "C:\Psychlinks\images\*.*"
wzzip -u -P -r d:\Backup\Psychlinks.zip
"C:\Psychlinks\generateditems\*.*"
wzzip -u -P -r d:\Backup\Psychlinks.zip "C:\Psychlinks\buttons\*.*"
wzzip -u -P -r d:\Backup\Psychlinks.zip "C:\Psychlinks\indexbuttons\*.*"
wzzip -u -P -r d:\Backup\Psychlinks.zip "C:\Psychlinks\titlebuttons\*.*"
wzzip -u -P -r d:\Backup\Psychlinks.zip "C:\Psychlinks\_borders\*.*"
wzzip -u -P -r d:\Backup\Psychlinks.zip "C:\Psychlinks\_derived\*.*"
wzzip -u -P -r d:\Backup\Psychlinks.zip "C:\Psychlinks\_private\*.*"
wzzip -u -P -r d:\Backup\Psychlinks.zip
"C:\Psychlinks\_private\pages\*.*"
wzzip -u -P -r d:\Backup\Psychlinks.zip "C:\Psychlinks\media\*.*"

A simpler version would be just to use the top-most directory and
specify to include all subdirectories but this one allows me to specify
which ones I want backed up.
 
If you download the free command line add-on for WinZip it's quite easy:
This is my batch file (the flags insure that only files needing updating
are added (and replaced) and that the folder names are stored to make it
easier to do a restore if necessary. Edit in notepad to reflect where
you want the file stored and the source folder names, and save it with
the extension .bat - then just double click to run it:

rem @echo off
wzzip -u d:\Backup\Psychlinks.zip "C:\Psychlinks\*.*"
wzzip -u -P -r d:\Backup\Psychlinks.zip "C:\Psychlinks\pages\*.*"
wzzip -u -P -r d:\Backup\Psychlinks.zip "C:\Psychlinks\images\*.*"
wzzip -u -P -r d:\Backup\Psychlinks.zip
"C:\Psychlinks\generateditems\*.*"
wzzip -u -P -r d:\Backup\Psychlinks.zip "C:\Psychlinks\buttons\*.*"
wzzip -u -P -r d:\Backup\Psychlinks.zip "C:\Psychlinks\indexbuttons\*.*"
wzzip -u -P -r d:\Backup\Psychlinks.zip "C:\Psychlinks\titlebuttons\*.*"
wzzip -u -P -r d:\Backup\Psychlinks.zip "C:\Psychlinks\_borders\*.*"
wzzip -u -P -r d:\Backup\Psychlinks.zip "C:\Psychlinks\_derived\*.*"
wzzip -u -P -r d:\Backup\Psychlinks.zip "C:\Psychlinks\_private\*.*"
wzzip -u -P -r d:\Backup\Psychlinks.zip
"C:\Psychlinks\_private\pages\*.*"
wzzip -u -P -r d:\Backup\Psychlinks.zip "C:\Psychlinks\media\*.*"

A simpler version would be just to use the top-most directory and
specify to include all subdirectories but this one allows me to specify
which ones I want backed up.
Click to expand...
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I'm a big fan of the winzip command-line add-on, and use it a lot in
making batch files for copying important files and directories to
other machines that have tape backups each night. (now if microsoft
could only fix the bug in the "scheduled tasks" utility that makes you
have to redo them every time daylight savings time cuts in or out.)

But I'm doing more of this by zipping up files needed for backup and
then creating batch files that ftp them (using the old dos ftp
commands) to other machines across the 'net. But this leads me to a
question that you might have the answer to: am I correct in assuming
that once files are zipped up, then it's a binary transfer?

I've never had a problem ftp'ing files where i didn't specify ascii or
binary, so i'm wondering if it makes any difference.

Larry
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