Archive of entries posted on December 2010

How to Back up IIS 7 and 7.5 with AppCmd

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As a follow up to my previous post regarding a GUI for backing up IIS, I thought it pertinent to cover how to back it up using the command line or PowerShell. This is a slightly more in-depth task than the earlier described method. There are four commands as part of the AppCmd backup module. …

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IIS 7 Backup and Restore

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With Exchange becoming only more integrated with Microsoft’s web server, Internet Information Services, it is becoming a more and more critical service. One thing I’ve always wanted, but have never been satisfied with, is the backup and restore capabilities (or lack thereof) built into IIS. Apache is a very simple web server to back up, …

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