John_Hosking
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Re: Metabase.bin file not backed up by BEWS 10.0?
Ah, but I spoke a little too soon, before noting that SGMon does NOT list all the files that BE silently omits to back up. It turns out that the SGMon trick, cool as it is, does not mention metabase.bin or metabase.xml. (I have since upgraded from Win2K to Windows Server 2003, which includes migration from IIS 5 to IIS 6. IIS 6 uses metabase.xml instead of metabase.bin. So now, BE cleverly does back up metabase.bin (which is now irrelevant), but not metabase.xml (which I actually need)). *sigh*666Views0likes0CommentsRe: Metabase.bin file not backed up by BEWS 10.0?
uz, thanks for your input. You are a wizard! SGMon is a very cool tool. It shows me exactly what I wanted to know. I just wonder how a normal user-type human is supposed to find out about this tool. It's certainly not in the Help within BE (even when I know to look for it). Thanks for your help, and have a great day! John666Views0likes0CommentsRe: Metabase.bin file not backed up by BEWS 10.0?
Yeah, right. Thanks. But before we close my question as assumed answered, let's just look again at what I wrote: What other files does BE treat in this way? Is there a list, or a Support Doc which talks about such files? It bothers me considerably that BE just silently ignores a file and does not report it as skipped or not backed up. BE does not backup metabase.bin and it doesn't log that fact. What other files suffer the same mistreatment? Thanks for an actual answer. John666Views0likes0CommentsRe: Metabase.bin file not backed up by BEWS 10.0?
Thank you, Ajit. I searched for "metabase" and "metabase.bin" last week, but doc 237007 didn't come up in the results. Let me review my new knowledge: - BE does not back up the metabase.bin file (as a file). - I have to go into IIS and manually do an IIS backup of the metabase. - The file created when I tell IIS to do a backup is stored in the MetaBack directory, and BE will back this file up. - To recover from my errors, I would have restored the metabase.bin file that BE saved from the MetaBack directory (if it had been necessary; it wasn't), then used IIS to restore from that restored file. (I have seen from Microsoft info that IIS 6 uses .XML files instead of the .bin file used by IIS 4 & 5, so things might be different when I move to IIS 6, but I'm guessing things will work the same.) Is the above correct? If it is, then I have to say I'm a little bothered by it, because (1) I have to backup the metabase manually in IIS, and can't count on BE helping me; and (2) I didn't realize my data was not being backed up. The BE logs say nothing about skipping this file. I assumed I had a copy. What other files does BE treat in this way? Is there a list, or a Support Doc which talks about such files? Thanks again for your help. Since my original post I have managed to get my Web sites back up and running, but not everything is the way it was before. But at least I'm getting wiser. John666Views0likes0CommentsMetabase.bin file not backed up by BEWS 10.0?
Have any of you seen that Backup Exec for Windows Servers 10.0 does not back up the file Metabase.bin? I have... Last night I had some troubles getting my IIS 5 web sites back up after rebooting my server (because of other crashes). I noticed that the Metabase.bin file in my \system32\inetsrv directory was only 1KB long, although an older one from 2003 was 314KB. The Metabase.bin file holds the settings for IIS 5, so I thought I'd just restore the previous night's copy and maybe I'd rescue myself. I guessed that somehow the Metabase.bin file had been corrupted, but thank goodness I make backups. It turns out that BE had not backed up that file. It backed up the old copy from 2003 (with its different name) but not the live version of Metabase.bin. Next (scary) question: What other files does BE not back up? I've checked my logs, but no errors or warnings were reported about Metabase.bin. "All" the files were successfully backed up, say the logs. I am not using AOFO. My settings under "Advanced" in the "Open file backup when Advanced Open File Option is not used" is With a lock. Does this somehow tell BE to not back up Metabase.bin? Thanks, John666Views0likes9Comments