Backup and Restore of the IIS Metabase
Published: July 24, 2002
By Chris Crowe
Summary
Backing up IIS involves the backup of the IIS metabase. The IIS metabase is a database similar in structure to the Windows Registry. The IIS metabase is optimized for IIS and provides a hierarchal storage and fast retrieval of IIS configuration properties for Web sites, virtual directories, and FTP, SMTP, and NNTP sites.
There are a number of ways to back up the metabase and some are better than others when we take a closer look:
| • | IIS Backup/Restore option in the Internet Services Manager snap-in |
| • | IIS Metabase Editor to export/import the metabase to a text file |
| • | ADSI command-line script |
| • | Third-party utilities |
