Friday, October 17, 2008

Failure trying to synch site... Event ID 5553 & 7888

These two event errors showed up this morning. It was due to moving a site between web applications. It seems the site keeps record of its GUID, so if you move it to another web application that shoud have a seperate GUID it creates a conflict when it attempts to sync. I was lucky because I knew which application it had to be.

To fix it I did the following:
Detach Content Database. This will not delete your database only break the association.
stsadm -o preparetomove -contentdb SQLserver:DB_NAME -site http://websitestsadm -o deletecontentdb -url http://website -databaseserver SQLserver -databasename

DB_NAMEReattach Content Database.stsadm -o addcontentdb -url http://website -databasename DB_NAME -databaseserver SQLserver

Further info can be found at: http://monthlymoss.blogspot.com/2007/11/here-is-issue-that-i-came-across-that.html

Lesson learned: Never move a site between web applications on the same farm w/o doing a preparetomove command.

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