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Export config of IIS

Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 10:53 am
by Burrito
I just finished configuring a new server with IIS 5 and it took me a long time to do (over 100 web sites each with their own IP). Is it possible to export the configuration settings for IIS (as a backup) in case I ever lose that machine? That way I can easily just re-import everything and be done with it.

This is where httpd.conf is a beautiful thing ....

Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 12:21 am
by hanji
This link might be useful:
http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsSe ... x?mfr=true

HTH
hanji

Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 5:40 pm
by Burrito
unfortunately that's only for IIS 6.0.

I need something for IIS 5.0 on windows 2000.

Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 5:53 pm
by Burrito
I found this: http://www.adsonline.co.uk/iisexport/Download.asp

but it's $$$.....is there not a built in way to export the IIS configuration in win2k?

Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 6:54 pm
by RobertGonzalez
I was just talking to our Windows network guru and he showed me a menu for saving your configuration to a file. From your IIS configuration window, right click on the server/computer name in the left pain and choose 'All Tasks'->'Save Configuration File to Disk'. Will that work with your setup?

Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 7:31 pm
by Burrito
that must be a 2k3 thing....I don't have an 'all tasks' option when I rt click the server name :(

Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 8:00 pm
by volka
maybe http://support.microsoft.com/kb/300672 ?
IIS 5 Administrative Metabase Backup
The metabase is a structure for storing IIS configuration settings. It performs some of the same functions as the Windows system registry but is specific to IIS.

edit: no, useless :(
Troubleshooting
The process that is described in this article comes with some important limitations that you should be familiar with before something goes wrong (and you need to rely on your backup). First, you cannot restore the metabase backup to another installation of Windows 2000. Although this would be convenient, this feature won't allow you to clone one IIS configuration to another server in your Web farm. More importantly, if you lose your entire server and end up reinstalling the operating system, you'll be unable to recover your IIS configuration from this backup. In other words, this backup isn't appropriate for disaster recovery use. The metabase backup and restoration functionality is best used for versioning purposes and to recover from the administrative mistakes that continue to plague Webmasters whether the mistakes are attempted optimizations that have the opposite affect or simple point-and-click errors.

Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 10:16 am
by RobertGonzalez
Sorry dude, it is a 2K3 thing. I didn't even check that.