Backing up and restoring Frontpage 2000 webs

[Tom Conklin]

I have many FrontPage 2000 webs on a single server (Main site - then many
subwebs).
I need to move the webs on to a new server. In all - there are about 200,000
documents.
I have been backing up this server (wwwroot and all subfolders) with NT
backup.

Is it possible to restore from a backup to the new server?
The new server will have the same name as the old one - the old one will be
taken off-line - I will rename the new server with the old server name.


Or - is there a better way to do this? I can't seem to find good disaster
recovery docs on FrontPage webs -While it is not the case - what if my server
died?

I have tried to set the webs up on a new server with a different name.
I did the publish function, but ran into permissions problems. (I was going
to just use the host header for client requests to the web server - this is
for a Intranet).
Additionally and unfortunately - Some of the hyperlinks point to file paths
- that is why I am now going to just rename the new server to the old server
name.

Thanks,
Tom C

 

[MD Websunlimited]

Hi Tom,

If the new server is also FP extended then why not just publish from one to the other?

 

[Tom Conklin]

No - The problem is that I will need to take the original server down before
I start up the new server with the same name. I did do a publish to the new
server with a different name, but all the links were recalculated with the
new server name - plus that is where I had the most difficulties with the
permissions.
Once I changed the name to the old name - it did do a recalculation and
restored all the old links to the old name - but my original problem with the
permissions were still there.
The only way I could access the webs with FrontPage was on the server
itself. I could not from my workstation. (I have full domain admin priv).
The only way that I could access from my workstation was to give "everyone"
full permissions to the webs.

I am thinking about restoring from a backup - then removing the FP
extensions - then reapplying them - then re-applying permissions.
Is there a prolem wit this type of plan?

Thanks,
Tom C