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