Safe way to restore a web site?

[Richard Lewis Haggard]

What is a safe way to restore a web site? I have a corporate web site and a
sub web that I was working on for another client that was on my corporate
server. As a result of adding the sub web and making changes to it, I have
in some manner corrupted my corporate web site. I am now trying to recover.

I have an uncorrupted version of the corporate web site on my development
machine. I imported the sub web and it appears to be properly copied to the
local development machine.

My first couple of attempts to recover the corp web involved simple
unconditional updating of the development files to the remote site. This
seems to have no effect. I'm reluctant to simply delete the web site and
redeploy because the last time I did something like that I ended up with the
most monstrous permissions problem that took in the order of 80 hours of my
time and a couple of Microsoft consultants time as well.

So, keeping in mind that I am a programmer, not a FrontPage developer, and
therefore easily confused by what would seem totally obvious to a more
knowledgeable person, what are the steps I need to do in order to restore my
corporate web site and then redeploy the sub web?

Thanks.

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

You need to restore from you most recent server back-up, you do back up you server on a regular
basis, correct?

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