I have a serious problem with a farm of a customer. The customer requested to restore an SSP from production enviroment to test enviroment. In test enviroment an identical SSP was already present. Customer requested to overwrite it. Using the GUI I started a restore job, using the backup of the night done with a scheduled stsadm script that save all the SSP of the farm. The restore run for a while, at a certain point it gave this error:
Object SSP_NAME failed in event OnRestore. For more information, see the error log located in the backup directory. TimeoutException: Timed out waiting for Shared Services provisioning jobs to pause.
after it the restore seem to be freezed up. I deleted the job in the timer job defition, tryed to restard some services on the machines, like Windows SharePoint Services Search and Windows SharePoint Services Administration. Anyway when I go in backup and restore status, the job is alaways there.
I succeded to delete the SSP that the job created, that was in unproviding status, but it's all.
Someone could suggest a workaround for this problem?
Farm is 2007 SP1 and is composed by two frontend, one index and one sql 2005 server. Al servers are w2k3 64bit
I never have much luck administrating SSP's through the GUI. I mostly use STSADM to do anything with the SSP as for some reason I have much better luck. I would try restoring your SSP via STSADM and see if you get back the same error. Below is the Stsadm syntax for this:
I never have much luck administrating SSP's through the GUI. I mostly use STSADM to do anything with the SSP as for some reason I have much better luck. I would try restoring your SSP via STSADM and see if you get back the same error. Below is the Stsadm syntax for this: