suggestions about backing up IIS on server 2003

[bookouri]

Can anybody tell me about their backup strategy for IIS?

I'm trying to come up with a good backup plan to make backups of my IIS configuration and all the web sites on my web server so that I could quickly recover them onto a new server if I had a catastrophic failure of the live web server? With only one or two mostly static web sites I've just been backing up the

http://wwwroot

directory, but I'm having to do more and more tweaking to successfully run scripts,.asp and .php etc. I've got one web site/server that took days of tweaking to finally get all the security settings so that everything works, and if it failed I need to get it back up and running quick not over several days.

Does the msbackup system state backup contain everything I would need? IIS itself has a backup/restore configuration in IIS manager, and it has a save configuration to disk option, but does anybody know what bits are saved this way compared to the system state backup?

I can find references on some of these things, but I'm more interested in real examples of what people are actually doing to backup their sites.

any suggestions would be appreciated

 

[psyclone1976]

The IIS manager takes a backup of the Metabase data. You'll need this to restore the data you are talking about above to do a restore.

Read this article.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pr...09d-ff3a-488f-a8dd-13044fa623a1.mspx?mfr=true

 

[bookouri]

thanks ill take a look at that. What I havnt figured out is where that iis manager physically stores those backups. They dont seem to be file system files..