Can you restore a SharePoint Portal Server 2003 backup to a MOSS farm? No.

Published Tuesday, October 21, 2008 1:57 PM

If you try to restore a SPD file from SharePoint 2003 to a MOSS instance, you will get this error:


Your backup is from a different version of Windows SharePoint Services and cannot be restored to a server running the current version. The backup file should be restored to a server with version '6.0.2.8117' or later.

by wkriebel
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# Carsten said on Tuesday, October 21, 2008 3:55 PM

You need to make sure that the version you restore from and to, are identical.

I had the same problem using WSS 2.0.

# smith2t said on Wednesday, October 22, 2008 10:02 AM

if the wss 2.0 database is atleast at sp2 you can connect it from the stsadm command on MOSS using addcontentdb. this will do an upgrade of the database and pending any issues and should come out ok and connected to MOSS unless you have made major modifications to wss 2.0 that MOSS does not understand.

# wkriebel said on Wednesday, October 22, 2008 10:28 AM

Smith2t: True.  However, this post is about the -o restore command.

# Cathy said on Thursday, October 23, 2008 10:10 AM

Yes, this is definitely not advised.

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