Backup and Restore of the IIS Metabase Published: July 24, 2002
By Chris Crowe SummaryBacking up IIS involves the backup of the IIS metabase. The IIS metabase is a database similar in structure to the Windows Registry. The IIS metabase is optimized for IIS and provides a hierarchal storage and fast retrieval of IIS configuration properties for Web sites, virtual directories, and FTP, SMTP, and NNTP sites. There are a number of ways to back up the metabase and some are better than others when we take a closer look: - IIS Backup/Restore option in the Internet Services Manager snap-in
- IIS Metabase Editor to export/import the metabase to a text file
- ADSI command-line script
- Third-party utilities
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