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stuart-holdenjones - 3/19/2012 5:55:30 AM
   
Server Crash
We have been using free edition of Kentico 5.5 on our server to serve our Intranet, however 2 weeks ago, we suffered from a Fatal .Net error. This effected every program that uses the .net framework. It could not be repaired.

I purchased a new hard drive, and done a fresh installation of Server 2003 Std Edition, and reinstalled the Kentico CMS 5.5R2 which i still had the install files for.

The old hard drive is 100% Intact, and is once again connected to the server, and is serving as a live backup so that we can copy data from the old drive to the new one.

Because of the .NET terminal error, we could not gain access to the CMSadmin section, and perform a backup using the built in tools.

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How can we get our data back and get the intranet site backup and running? Do we simply copy over the iNETPUB folder which the KenticoCMS directory is located, or is there a set procedure in order to rescue this?

Any help would be appreciated.

many Thanks

Stuart.

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kentico_helenag - 3/19/2012 6:07:14 AM
   
RE:Server Crash
Hello Stuart,


if you copy the project folder, connect it to the Kentico database and establish a web site on the IIS (the .NET version must be the same as before), it will work. In fact the Kentico site is the database and the files in the project folder. Also if you deploy the site to a different server, it is enough to copy the database, project folder and change the connection string (Deployment to the live server).


Best regards,
Helena Grulichova