Re: Invalid signature when restoring metabase

From: Bernard (qbernard_at_hotmail.com.discuss)
Date: 01/29/04


Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 17:36:08 +0800

How do you backup ? if it's via IIS MMC and you reinstall the OS,
that backup can't be restore simply due to it contain machine signature and
etc detail.

You should export configuration to file. or use metabase explorer to export
to file
without any machine specific detail.

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Regards,
Bernard Cheah
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"BG" <bg2@uasystem.ua.edu> ????
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> I get the message Invalid Signature when I try to restore my IIS metabase.
> Any ideas? I had to re-install Windows 2003 on this server. I backed up
the
> files and restored and now I am attempting to restore the metabase using
the
> Backup/Restore Configuration in IIS, when this error occurs.
>
>


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