Migrating IIS settings from backup.
I recently had a Windows 2003 server that died (HD problems) causing me to migrate all the settings and information to another Windows 2003 server. However it fails??
Move all the files and the IIS settings from the old machine to the new one, do following:
* Go into the IIS manager and select "Backup/Restore Configuration" and click on "Create Backup", giving it a name and you must create a password if you want this to be portable.
* Locate the backup files in the \windows\system32\inetsrv\metaback\ folder and grab both the .MDO and .SCO files for backup
* Move the files to the same folder on the new machine
* On the new machine, go into IIS manager and selected "Backup/Restore Configuration"
* Your backup will appear in the list so select Restore for that backup and it should restore without issue.
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