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Trying to create a copy of a Sharepoint site using Sharepoint's Backup & Restore in Central Admin. 

I restored the Web App FraggleNet with it's Content Database Fraggle_FraggleNet_Content - into a new web app, url http://fraggle99:25998, web app name FraggleNet99, same server, new directory, Content db name Fraggle_FraggleNet99_Content.

This succeeded, but when we go to http://fraggle99:25998 there is nothing there.  No site collection is listed for this web app in CA.

Is there some vital step that we haven't done?

Thanks for any help.

Jan

I've made some progress.  Following suggestions from blogs/forums all over the place, I tried restoring from a stsadm backup.  We'd been doing stsadm "directory" backups anyway, as I'd understood this was the best way to get absolutely everything backed up.

I thought I'd start clean, so I created a new web app Fraggle77 on port 9242 - http://fraggle:9242 in a new app pool fraggle77, content db = Fraggle_Fraggle77_Content.  Did iisreset /noforce.

I then did a stsadm backup of FraggleNet -

stsadm -o backup -url http://Fraggle -filename D:\FraggleBackup\testbackup.bak (http://Fraggle equates to http://fragglenet) then the following restore

stsadm -o restore -url http://Fraggle:9242 -filename D:\FraggleBackup\testbackup.bak

That worked fine, however what we actually want is to restore from a previous "directory" stsadm backup, so I looked at the spbackup.log to find out which .bak file did the Content Database for the main FraggleNet & tried this restore -

stsadm -o restore -url http://Fraggle:9242 -filename D:\FraggleBackup\spbr0044\00000019.bak -overwrite

This gave me the following error

"Your backup is from a different version of Windows Sharepoint Services and cannot be restored to a server running the current version.  The backup file should be restored to a server with version 1162887508.196608.17694860.0 or later"

This error would be expected if I was trying to migrate to a different server, but I'm not - the backup was done 2 nights ago on that same server.  Highly unlikely that any updates done, but anyway I did a fresh directory backup -

Stsadm.exe -o backup -directory \\fraggle\fragglebackup -backupmethod full

then reinvestigated the spbackup.log to identify the .bak file & redid the restore

stsadm -o restore -url http://Fraggle:9242 -filename D:\FraggleBackup\spbr0045\0000001D.bak -overwrite

Still get the same WSS version error.

I am pretty baffled here, sorry the post is so long, but hope all the detail helps!

Regards, Jan

Hi, i have exactly the same problem.

I have made a backup of a site, it resulted in a 30Mb file.

The purpose was to move it to another server, but I face the some problems with that message of different versions.

So I try to restore the backuped site in the same sever from where it comes in the first place.

No service packs, no setups, in the same day and the message still:

“Your backup is from a different version of Windows Sharepoint Services and cannot be restored to a server running the current version.  The backup file should be restored to a server with version 1162887508.196608.17694860.0 or later"

Funny is that my WSS3 and MOSS version is “12.0.4519.1086”, so I don’t know from where that “1162887508.196608.17694860.0” comes!!!

This is using stsadm.exe.

But I even try with Sharepoint Designer but this one says that a file named “…ExportSettings.XML” is missing in the “C:\Windows\Temp”. What is this!?

So, with the tools that I bought to Microsoft I can’t do a decent backup and restore operation J

Well, any help is welcome,

Thanks

FS

Hi Jan,

Just quick question did you check is there any new version of the website with same name as restoring one?

I had same issue in past but i was trying to rebuild the server.

this error message gone when I applied the Sharepoint service pack1. you can give a try. hope that will work for you.