How do you restore the Sharepoint to another server?

[alex868]

How do you restore the Sharepoint team services 2001 database to another server? Our server is very old and needs to be replaced and I need to restore the database to a new server running 2000 and sharepoint.

 

[bkirkflex]

We have been testing this out as well. We tried using the stsadm.exe command and backed up the web site and then restored it on a different computer running SharePoint. The site came up and we where able to get to the stored documents.

So my question is what do the Config database and content database do? We where thinking meta data was stored there. We are new to SharePoint and need directions as well for back up and restores. We did notice that the config and content databases will not restore on a different database because, we are guessing, different server names.

Thanks.

 

[kipster]

It is possible to edit the xml that is created when backing up SharePoint 2003, the server name needs to be changed to the name of the new server, and that should enable a restore to the new server.

Hope this helps

Kevin