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Sandy
Happy New Year everyone,
I must move our website from one server (IIS 5.0) to the new Windows 2003 Web Edition serve
(IIS 6.0). I think this should be fairly simple: Use the import wizard to import the web off the existin
server to the new server. Well, it seemed to be working...you can see the progress of the websit
being imported and watch the file system grow in IIS/explorer...BUT it is NOT normal for this to be
taking hours upon hours....No? I'm talking getting kicked out of my office yesterday by the night
custodians because I was still waiting, after 6 hours, for this 500 MB website to finish importing.
And, at this point, after 6 hours, I would have to start responding to notifications to 'retry' on the ne
importing server with a message stating that the current operation could not continue (the current
operation was simply transfering file.whatever to c:\maybeinetpub on the new server. If I simply
clicked 'retry', the importing would continue, but it got to the point that I was responding to thi
notification every other minute or so. I had to leave thinking "there has to be a better way".
Anyone out there had to transfer (import) a website from a 2000/IIS 5.0 server to a 2003 web editio
IIS 6.0 server yet? Is there another way that is faster besides the import wizard, and does the tim
this is taking for a 500 MB website sound reasonable?
We've got fiber, so plenty of bandwidth here, I don't think that's the problem.
Any suggestions or communicated experience would be highly appreciated,
Thanks
Sand
Net Admi
[email protected]
I must move our website from one server (IIS 5.0) to the new Windows 2003 Web Edition serve
(IIS 6.0). I think this should be fairly simple: Use the import wizard to import the web off the existin
server to the new server. Well, it seemed to be working...you can see the progress of the websit
being imported and watch the file system grow in IIS/explorer...BUT it is NOT normal for this to be
taking hours upon hours....No? I'm talking getting kicked out of my office yesterday by the night
custodians because I was still waiting, after 6 hours, for this 500 MB website to finish importing.
And, at this point, after 6 hours, I would have to start responding to notifications to 'retry' on the ne
importing server with a message stating that the current operation could not continue (the current
operation was simply transfering file.whatever to c:\maybeinetpub on the new server. If I simply
clicked 'retry', the importing would continue, but it got to the point that I was responding to thi
notification every other minute or so. I had to leave thinking "there has to be a better way".
Anyone out there had to transfer (import) a website from a 2000/IIS 5.0 server to a 2003 web editio
IIS 6.0 server yet? Is there another way that is faster besides the import wizard, and does the tim
this is taking for a 500 MB website sound reasonable?
We've got fiber, so plenty of bandwidth here, I don't think that's the problem.
Any suggestions or communicated experience would be highly appreciated,
Thanks
Sand
Net Admi
[email protected]