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New Post: Backup Script Error

darrenw — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:50:53 GMT

When I try to run the script I am getting this error:

File d:\SPBackup\spbackup.ps1 cannot be loaded. A required certificate is not within its validity period when verifying
against the current system clock or the timestamp in the signed file.
At line:1 char:20

I cannot figure out what certificate it is looking at or how to get the script to not error out. I would greatly appreciate any help.

Thanks.

Darren

New Post: Sending report on errors

stakanoff — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:16:18 GMT

Thanks a lot for this great script.

Could you help to change it.

I want to send to email information on errors or not completing steps of it.

Thank you for advance

Mihail

New Post: Restore Steps

msprad — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:28:54 GMT

I know that this post is a year old, but can anyone provide some steps in restoring a site with these files? This tool is wonderful and works like a champ, but it is useless to me if i don't know how to perform a restore using the files that are being backed up. Someone please help me.

Thanks,

msprad

New Post: Error given path's format is not supported

msprad — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:36:14 GMT

Thanks so much pioumamala. That fix worked for me. Now that our orginization has this script that works, how would i use these files for a restore? Does anyone know how to perform a restore? i noticed that there was another discussion for restores, but there wasn't ever anything posted. i will also add another post in that discussion. Hopefully someone will give us some direction on how to do that because even if you have a backup, if you dont know how to do a restore, it serves no purpose. Once again, thanks for your help

msprad

New Post: Email report only on errors

stakanoff — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:51:40 GMT

Thank you very much for your script.

This is a great job.

Could you please help to change script for sending email report only on errors

Thank for advance.

Mihail

New Post: Error given path's format is not supported

pioumamala — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:34:10 GMT

Hi !

It's because of your port number in the site collection adress when using a site collection method.
The script gets the full adress of the site collection except the "http://" which is replaced by nothing.
And when you've got a port number different than 80, you must input it (eg : http://intranet:81). And th escript try to name the backup file with the ":" character, which is forbidden by system. This is why the script fails.
To workaround this : open the ps1 script (v 1.2), find the line : $backupfilename = $sitecollectionurl.replace("http://","")
And just under, put this line : $backupfilename = $backupfilename.replace(":","")

retry. All should be OK now.

New Post: invalid Backup name

jrock — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:46:50 GMT

Hi Jesper,

I'm also wondering if you made any progress on the issue?

New Post: Receiving Errors on Null Values

JesperMChristense — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 06:55:04 GMT

Hi Patrick,

You can send a screenshot to this mail :) -and I will have a look at it.

You are running the SPBackup script directly on the SharePoint Server, right?

Regards,
Jesper

Den 07/08/09 16.38 skrev "apc3usa" <notifications@codeplex.com> følgende:

From: apc3usa

I am getting an error...

you cannot call a method on a null-valued expression at c:\backup\spbackup.ps1:73 char:37 after starting hive backup message and after the iis metadata backup. i am also having issues with email... am i able to send you a screen shot?

Thanks for the help.

-Patrick

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New Post: Receiving Errors on Null Values

apc3usa — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:38:01 GMT

I am getting an error...

you cannot call a method on a null-valued expression at c:\backup\spbackup.ps1:73 char:37 after starting hive backup message and after the iis metadata backup. i am also having issues with email... am i able to send you a screen shot?

Thanks for the help.

-Patrick

New Post: invalid Backup name

whatupe — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:11:04 GMT

Hi Jesper,

I just wanted to follow up as well and see if there was any progress on a fix for the issue above.

Thanks.

New Post: Error given path's format is not supported

sanban — Tue, 19 May 2009 18:16:18 GMT

Hi MSPrad,

No it never worked for me and I gave up... I expect atleaset a small user guide with "how-to-use"...but its never there... I have had lot of issues with these codeplex tools ....anyway if u get any solution thenpls post it here..

Good luck

New Post: Error given path's format is not supported

msprad — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:39:30 GMT

i know that this is an old discussion, but i have the same issue and there was never a response. if anyone is out there and can give a respose, that would be wonderful. i am using the latest version that is posted. 1.2 Please help.

New Post: [string]$Configurationfile =

ryanph — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:31:53 GMT

I got it working, thanks Kev. Turns out I must run this on the SharePoint server, as it calls stsadm which I wasn’t aware of. I was looking for a powershell remote backup solution where I could run this from anywhere and backup my site collection.

Does anyone know whether a powershell solution that might use WebDAV or other protocol to provide this solution?

From: Ryan Phillips
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 11:18 AM
To: 'spbackup@discussions.codeplex.com'
Subject: [spbackup:53614]

Hi Kev, thanks for the information. I am receiving the following error after configuring the XML file and wondering whether I need to edit the .ps1 file, based on the error below:

PS C:\Windows\system32> C:\Users\ryanph.REDMOND\Documents\Software\SharePoint\spbackup1.2\spbackup.ps1 need parameter Configurationfile (e.g. "c:\SPBackup\SPBackup.xml")

At C:\Users\ryanph.REDMOND\Documents\Software\SharePoint\spbackup1.2\spbackup.ps1:16 char:41

…kind regards,

______________________________

Ryan J. Phillips :: BPOS Migration Manager

Microsoft Business Online Service Delivery (BOSD)

( 425-538-1286 F Redmond, WA

New Post: [string]$Configurationfile =

ryanph — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:18:13 GMT

Hi Kev, thanks for the information. I am receiving the following error after configuring the XML file and wondering whether I need to edit the .ps1 file, based on the error below:

PS C:\Windows\system32> C:\Users\ryanph.REDMOND\Documents\Software\SharePoint\spbackup1.2\spbackup.ps1 need parameter Configurationfile (e.g. "c:\SPBackup\SPBackup.xml")

At C:\Users\ryanph.REDMOND\Documents\Software\SharePoint\spbackup1.2\spbackup.ps1:16 char:41

…kind regards,

______________________________

Ryan J. Phillips :: BPOS Migration Manager

Microsoft Business Online Service Delivery (BOSD)

( 425-538-1286 F Redmond, WA

New Post: Restore Steps

kev147 — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:38:01 GMT

I know that this is outside of the scope of the script, but I do think it would be useful to follow through to the end and explain how we recover the files that are backed up with this script.

I am planning to invoke a BCDR scenario where I recover to an alternative front-end web server and an alternative back-end database.

New Post: [string]$Configurationfile =

kev147 — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:35:43 GMT

Hi Ryan,

You don't need to modify the ps1 script at all, all amendments of this kind should be made within the xml file.

To tell the powershell script to read from the xml script, execute the following command line.

(Place files within C:\SPBackup)

C:\SPBackup\SPBackup.ps1 C:\SPBackup\SPBackup.xml

New Post: Additions to the script

kev147 — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:32:43 GMT

Jesper, are these additions planned to be included in the next version?

New Post: invalid Backup name

kev147 — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:23:24 GMT

Hi Jesper,

You mentioned an updated release that was expected to resolve this issue.

I am a bit of a newbie, but I am willing to assist where possible, it would be great to get this part of the script working. I am investigating using this script as our Sharepoint backup tool and will then be invoking a BCDR test to see how we can use the files in a recovery scenario onto a different front-end web server and a different back-end SQL server.

I am hoping that this is a supported scenario for this script.

New Post: [string]$Configurationfile =

ryanph — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:26:31 GMT

Hi all, trying to work through the script and not sure how to populate this section of the .ps1 file? I have tried the following and the script errors out?

[

string]$Configurationfile = "C:\Users\ryanph\Documents\Software\SharePoint Backup\spbackup1.2\SPBackup.xml" $(throw "need parameter Configurationfile (e.g. ""c:\SpBack\SPBackup.xml"")")

Is there a particular way I should enter this? Possibly use a share UNC path instead of the full path?

Thanks
...Ryan

New Post: Error given path's format is not supported

sanban — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:57:56 GMT

Hi,

I have created a spbackup.xml as follows:

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<confSPBackup>
   <site id="1">
<catastrophicbackup>0</catastrophicbackup>
<catastrophicmethod>full</catastrophicmethod>
<sitecollectionbackup>1</sitecollectionbackup>
<sitecollectionurl>http://my-moss-server:13970</sitecollectionurl>
<hivebackup>1</hivebackup>
<hive>C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12</hive>
<iisbackup>1</iisbackup>
<iisencryptopassword>13970</iisencryptopassword>
<smtpserver></smtpserver>
<fromemail></fromemail>
<toemail></toemail>
<backupdestination>\\my-moss-server\spbackup-sitecollection</backupdestination>
<backupdestinationmaxkeepdays>14</backupdestinationmaxkeepdays>
   </site>
</confSPBackup>
===================================================
I'm getting following error when I run the spbackup.ps1 script

Test-Path : The given path's format is not supported.
At C:\Tools\spbackup1.2\spbackup.ps1:67 char:21
+ if (-not (test-path <<<< $path))
Set-Content : The given path's format is not supported.
At C:\Tools\spbackup1.2\spbackup.ps1:69 char:14
+   set-content <<<< $path ("PK" + [char]5 + [char]6 + ("$([char]0)" * 18))
Set-Content : The given path's format is not supported.
At C:\Tools\spbackup1.2\spbackup.ps1:69 char:14
+   set-content <<<< $path ("PK" + [char]5 + [char]6 + ("$([char]0)" * 18))
Set-Content : The given path's format is not supported.
At C:\Tools\spbackup1.2\spbackup.ps1:69 char:14
+   set-content <<<< $path ("PK" + [char]5 + [char]6 + ("$([char]0)" * 18))
You cannot call a method on a null-valued expression.
At C:\Tools\spbackup1.2\spbackup.ps1:73 char:37
+ $files | foreach {$zipfile.CopyHere( <<<< $_.fullname) }
Access to the path '\\my-moss-server\spbackup-sitecollection\log.txt' is denied.
At C:\Tools\spbackup1.2\spbackup.ps1:161 char:120
+     [DateTime]::Now.ToString() + ": Hive backup Done! File name is $backupdestination\$backupfilename-12hive$guid.zi
p" >> <<<< "$backupdestination\log.txt"

Invalid backup name.
Test-Path : The given path's format is not supported.
At C:\Tools\spbackup1.2\spbackup.ps1:67 char:21
+ if (-not (test-path <<<< $path))
Set-Content : The given path's format is not supported.
At C:\Tools\spbackup1.2\spbackup.ps1:69 char:14
+   set-content <<<< $path ("PK" + [char]5 + [char]6 + ("$([char]0)" * 18))
Set-Content : The given path's format is not supported.
At C:\Tools\spbackup1.2\spbackup.ps1:69 char:14
+   set-content <<<< $path ("PK" + [char]5 + [char]6 + ("$([char]0)" * 18))
Set-Content : The given path's format is not supported.
At C:\Tools\spbackup1.2\spbackup.ps1:69 char:14
+   set-content <<<< $path ("PK" + [char]5 + [char]6 + ("$([char]0)" * 18))
Access to the path '\\my-moss-server\spbackup-sitecollection\log.txt' is denied.
At C:\Tools\spbackup1.2\spbackup.ps1:206 char:133
+     [DateTime]::Now.ToString() + ": IIS Metadata backup Done! File name is $backupdestination\$backupfilename-IISMet
adata$guid.zip" >> <<<< "$backupdestination\log.txt"

whats the problem here?

Thanks,
San