Multiple stsadm restore to same machine fails

[Tariq]

Hi does anyone know why multiple stsadm restores of a single site on to
the
same box fails?

stsadm complains
"No content databases are available for restoring this site collection.
Create a new content database and then try the restore operation again.
To
create a new content database, on the Virtual Server Settings page for
the
virtual server, click Manage content databases. On the Manage Content
Databases page, click Add a content database."
I'm curious to know why,

-Tariq

 

[Michelle Hlaing]

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From: "Tariq" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.aspnet.webservices
Subject: Multiple stsadm restore to same machine fails
Date: 20 Jun 2004 22:32:41 -0700

Hi does anyone know why multiple stsadm restores of a single site on to
the
same box fails?

stsadm complains
"No content databases are available for restoring this site collection.
Create a new content database and then try the restore operation again.
To
create a new content database, on the Virtual Server Settings page for
the
virtual server, click Manage content databases. On the Manage Content
Databases page, click Add a content database."
I'm curious to know why,

-Tariq

Hi Tariq,

The error you are getting is in regards to Windows SharePoint Services 2003.

Issue is addressed in the new Windows SharePoint Services admin guide:

About GUIDs and Restoring Site Collections:

If you attempt to restore a backup of a site collection more than once to the same
content database, you may get the following error message: "No content databases
are available for restoring this site collection. Create a new content database and
then try the restore operation again." This is because the globally-unique
identifiers (GUID) for lists are preserved in the backup file and reused during
restore, but the content database requires list GUIDs to be unique. Therefore, you
cannot restore a site collection twice to the same content database, and must
instead use a different content database.

So, you can go and create a new content database in the current site and the site
will restore. Also you can use the smigrate utility which will create a new GUID when restoring.

Hope that helps,

Michelle

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