At times it is required to make a clone of your Windows-based Web server. The first idea is to just copy the IIS metabase file across the servers to clone the configuration. However, that would not work as expected; ACLs and GUIDs, as well as certain other settings specific to the source computer.
However, the correct way is rather obvious: create a backup copy of metabase of one computer and restore it on the other one. This method would correctly handle the ACL and GUIDs mapping.
You should also be sure there are the same user accounts and directories structure on the target computer to make this cloning work.
However, the correct way is rather obvious: create a backup copy of metabase of one computer and restore it on the other one. This method would correctly handle the ACL and GUIDs mapping.
You should also be sure there are the same user accounts and directories structure on the target computer to make this cloning work.
