Stefan Goßner

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Stefan Goßner taucht in einer vierteiligen Serie in die Tiefen der SharePoint Deployment und Migration

[ Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 ] Providing some real world samples for export To demonstrate how

[via Stefan Gossner ] This past week I was in Redmond teaching my WCM401 development class in an open

Body: Great series of posts by Stefan on how to use the Content Migration API. Very timely for me as

Stefan Goßner has published a four article series on how to develop using the Content Deployment and

I'm having difficulty with export/import of a site from one farm to another.  The problem has to do with the Data View Web Parts that are in the site.  Apparently, they persist reference to the GUID of the datasource (list)?  Do you have any guidance for this scenario?  Thanks.

Stefan Goßner has put together a terrific 4-part series on the SharePoint Content and Deployment API

MOSS / SharePoint Content Deployment

Back in May I wrote a post titled SharePoint deployment options : Features or Content Deployment? , which

Around the time work started on a long whitepaper about migrating content files from SharePoint server

Stefan Goßner posted a great series of posts about the Content Migration API (formerly known as PRIME

Hi

I've a big problem in the stsadm -restore command

We only had Site collection backups and we need one site the user deleted from the backup

We did the backup in the production server and one of the user deleted the site(:)) and we’re trying to get the site backup.

When we try to restore we're getting the following error

C:\Documents and Settings\rameshk>stsadm -o restore -url http://localhost -filename z:\projects.bak -overwrite

Your backup is from a different version of Windows SharePoint Services and cannot be restored to a server running the current version. The backup file should be restored to a server with version '3701403.0.1196032409.29915337' or later.

I saw few post on this error.

http://blogs.technet.com/wbaer/archive/2007/05/22/understanding-and-handling-microsoft-it-site-delete-capture-1-0-archives.aspx - I did install the MSITDelete Site capture on my local machine. Not sure that is the problem. If only have installed this the production, that would have saved almost two days and still no postive results

http://serverdays.com/2007/08/10/problems-using-stsadm-to-backup-windows-sharepoint-services-30/

But not any solutions though. I don't know whether Microsoft knows about this or something I'm not doing correctly.

And by the way, if I have backup using stsadm can I read it using Content API or any other tool which wil read the data and restore it

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Ramesh

Hi,

I am using Microsoft.Sharepoint.Deployment classes to create archives of sites using the code mentioned below. It used to work previously, but has started throwing the following exception

Failed to create package file

Unknown compression type in a cabinet folder

at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequest.BuildCabinetFile(String bstrTempDirectory, String bstrCabFileLocation, UInt32 uMaxCabFileSize) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.ExportDataFileManager.<>c__DisplayClass2.<Compress>b__0()

Here's the code that I am using

SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(delegate()

               {

                   using (SPSite site = new SPSite(url))

                   {

                       using (SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb())

                       {

                           string strBackupfile = web.Title + ".cmp";

                           SPExportSettings exportSettings = new SPExportSettings();

                           if (ExportAll)

                               exportSettings.ExportMethod = SPExportMethodType.ExportAll;

                           else

                               exportSettings.ExportMethod = SPExportMethodType.ExportChanges;

                           exportSettings.BaseFileName = strBackupfile;

                           exportSettings.FileLocation = "C:\\";

                           exportSettings.ExcludeDependencies = false;

                           exportSettings.IncludeSecurity = SPIncludeSecurity.All;

                           if (IncludeAllVersions)

                               exportSettings.IncludeVersions = SPIncludeVersions.All;

                           else

                               exportSettings.IncludeVersions = SPIncludeVersions.CurrentVersion;

                           exportSettings.SiteUrl = url;

                           exportSettings.ExcludeDependencies = false;

                           exportSettings.CommandLineVerbose = false;

                           exportSettings.FileCompression = true;

                           exportSettings.OverwriteExistingDataFile = true;

                           SPExportObject ob = new SPExportObject();

                           ob.Type = SPDeploymentObjectType.Web;

                           ob.ExcludeChildren = false;

                           ob.Id = web.ID;

                           exportSettings.ExportObjects.Add(ob);

                           exportSettings.Validate();

                           SPExport export = new SPExport(exportSettings);

                           //export.Completed += new EventHandler<SPDeploymentEventArgs>(export_Completed);

                           //Run the damn thing.

                           export.Run();

                           //context.Undo();

                       }

                   }

               });

This works correctly if I set exportSettings.FileCompression to false. I have recently installed WSS and MOSS service packs. Can you please help me out?

Thanks

Vedanshu

Hi Stefan,

I am running this process on a test site which is just a basic collaboration portal. The process used to work fine before we installed Sharepoint service packs. During those test runs, the size of archives created was less than 10MB with the available disk space being close to 22GB. So I guess disk space should not have  been a problem. I have also tried it with different filetypes (.cmp, .cab etc.)but have not been able to run it with compression enabled. The process works correctly if exportsettings.FileCompression is set to false.

Thanks

Vedanshu

[ Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6 ] Requirements for a successful content deployment

If you&#39;ve been under a rock like I have apparently over the last few months, you might not have noticed

SharePoint Site vs. Web exports/imports and Custom Layout Pages

Can someone explain the difference between ExcludeChildren and IncludeDescendants?

Thanks

Hi Stefan,

I just read on a blog that Sharepoint designer workflows do not get migrated by Content Deployment... is this true?

Please advise/confirm...

Thanks

Ajay

Hi,

I am using the content migration API to import and export large video files (50-500 MB).

I am getting following error when one of the larger files around 300 MB are being attached : "Insufficient memory to continue the execution of the program. at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequestInternalClass.AddOrUpdateItem"

I have 2GB ram and x86 processor. This problem only occurs on 32 bit processors. Its working fine with x64 architecture.

I am using an external blog storage API to store these large files.

Please advise!!

Regards,

Rahul Singh

Hi

I m getting this error  :

Progress: Importing ListItem /sites/components/MigratedUD?id=46.

[11/12/2008 10:56:41 AM]: Error: Invalid file name

The file name you specified could not be used.  It may be the name of an existing file or directory, or you may not have permission to access the file.

  at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequest.CreateOrUpdateFileAndItem(String bstrUrl, String bstrWebRelativeUrl, Guid& docId, Object varDoc, Int32 docLength, Int32 exists, String bstrCreatedBy, String bstrModifiedBy, Int32 iCreatedByID, Int32 iModifiedByID, Int32 iVersion, Object varTimeCreated, Object varTimeLastModified, Object varProperties, String checkInComment, Int32 docLibRowID, String bstrListName, UInt32& pdwVirusCheckStatus, String& pVirusCheckMessage)

  at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.FileSerializer.CreateOrUpdateFileWithGuid(SPFileStream spstm, SPWeb web, Guid fileId, String fileUrl, SPUser author, SPUser editor, String checkinComment, DateTime timeCreated, DateTime timeLastModified, MetaInfoHandler metaInfo, FileInfo fileInfo, Int32 iVersion, Boolean isFirstVersion, SPImportSettings settings, Int32 listItemId, String listInternalName)

Thanks in advance

Shobha

how could we migrate list without list item?

How could we migrate list item version(list items are not files)?

hi Stefan,

when i am exporting list items, in which one is folder and under this folder there is list item.

i am getting this error

FatalError: Violation of PRIMARY KEY constraint 'PK__#ExportObjects____124F33FC'

. Cannot insert duplicate key in object 'dbo.#ExportObjects'.

The statement has been terminated.

Regards

Intekhab

Hi,

I am using the content migration API along with retain ID's to handle list's along with attachments.

I am exporting lot of list items together, Is there any way that i can perform some operations on these items just before importing using Content migration API by only using the export file.

I tried using the Started event handler with the API but it didn't work, I am looking for an event handler like ObjectImporting which will be called just before an object is about to be imported.

Please suggest!

Regards

Varun

Following are some of the things that I learned while doing the content deployment for one of my customers:

Not importing, at the time of exporting.

Hi Stefan,

These list items are the hook in my neck. When i am migrating the site all the list items get duplicated each time.i know that this is the default behaviour of CMP API but is there any way to get rid while migrating the site? Please suggest something...

I googled for the same but all in vain

Regards

Intekhab

Hi Stefan,

This question is not related to content deployment issue, but i want to know if we modify any oob forms(eg: Workflow.aspx in 12 hive) and if we install service pack or patchs then what ever we have modified to the workflow.aspx will remain same or a new form will replace the older one. Please suggest me regarding this

Regards

Srivatsa

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Hi Stefan,

Can I import a CMP file created on a 32 bit SharePoint server installation on a 64 bit SharePoint installation.

Thanks

Vedanshu

Hi Stefan,

I have variation site structure as VariationRootsite then english and french site in parallen with in the same web application. I have a list say EnglishTest in english and want to move the list items from to EnglishTest list french site FrenchTest List. both lists has same template. I want to move list items from english site to french site. We want to retain object identity so that during next export-import operation the if any item in the english site being updated then it will reflect the update on the same item in french site also. Help is appriciated.

Thanks.

Hi Stefan, Thanks for the reply.

We have one more case. We have two site collection s in the same web application in same language. We want to keep few lists of SiteCollection2 in sync with the same lists of Sitecollection1. We want to migrate list items only using content migration APIs. we want to update the items also when they got updated in SiteCollection1. could you guide us how to get the same?

Thanks a lot.

Hi Stefan, I have this irritating error:

The connection to the destination server was lost after the remote import job was started. The import job might still succeed. Content deployment will continue to attempt to reestablish a connection with the destination server

What could be the cause of this error? Both servers are in the same zone, and are hosting the same site. The source server is basically our authoring server while the destination is production end. I have deleted this job and path and recreated but i keep getting the same error.

Appreciate ur help in advance.

I am also getting this error with the content deployment:

The connection to the destination server was lost after the remote import job was started. The import job might still succeed. Content deployment will continue to attempt to reestablish a connection with the destination server.

It's stuck on "Running" for over 3 days now.  It doesn't give me the option to stop it or delete it.  How do I get rid of it?

Thanks in advance!