Comments on: Exporting site content from a SharePoint Content Database for recovery purposes.

By: tronmcp

tronmcp — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:28:56 +0000

Awesome, this is exactly what I needed! Thank you!!

By: Neil

Neil — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 23:10:27 +0000

You saved our bacon with this. Thank you so much!

By: Keith Richie

Keith Richie — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 13:20:39 +0000

I should handle that as is Dennis

By: Dennis

Dennis — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 09:35:36 +0000

Hello,

Great post! It helped me alot.

Is there a possiblity to also export .docx and .xlsx files?

By: Wim

Wim — Wed, 04 May 2011 07:22:13 +0000

After posting my findings, the text is not rendered correctly. The statements I added had the not equal to (”) sign in them.

” AND ad.Id ” ‘B25E2773-456C-4A29-974A-029E8DF7CCF2′ ” +

etc.

By: Wim

Wim — Wed, 04 May 2011 07:19:25 +0000

Hello Keith,

the problem is solved. There were indeed empty fields in de Dirname column and therefore the script gave the correct error message and couldn’t create a folder.

I did the following to investigate the error message:
From your script I copied the SQL statements and adapted them so I could run it in a query window.
The output showed that in the first five lines the field Dirname contained no data.
I jotted down the ID’s of these lines and added five lines to the SQL query:
AND ad.Id ‘B25E2773-456C-4A29-974A-029E8DF7CCF2′
AND ad.Id ’9CC53E20-171E-445B-A33B-3B41E6C3A764′
AND ad.Id ’07AA120D-B316-4A08-BF0B-59D786056E26′
AND ad.Id ’8FF0D288-9D2B-493D-8584-7755DB55A1FD’
AND ad.Id ’2B32C357-4516-4EC9-9159-A83F0240E6A2′

I ran the query again and the five lines were left out of the output.

Then I edited your script and added the adapted SQL statement:
// the query to grab all the files.
SqlCommand com = con.CreateCommand();
com.CommandText = “SELECT ad.SiteId, ad.Id, ad.DirName,” +
” ad.LeafName, ads.Content” +
” FROM AllDocs ad, AllDocStreams ads” +
” WHERE ad.SiteId = ads.SiteId” +
” AND ad.Id = ads.Id” +
” AND ads.Content IS NOT NULL” +
” AND ad.Id ‘B25E2773-456C-4A29-974A-029E8DF7CCF2′ ” +
” AND ad.Id ’9CC53E20-171E-445B-A33B-3B41E6C3A764′ ” +
” AND ad.Id ’07AA120D-B316-4A08-BF0B-59D786056E26′ ” +
” AND ad.Id ’8FF0D288-9D2B-493D-8584-7755DB55A1FD’ ” +
” AND ad.Id ’2B32C357-4516-4EC9-9159-A83F0240E6A2′ ” +
” Order by DirName”;

After compiling the script I ran it and all the data was wonderfully extracted and put in a file structure.

Many thanks for your help. I hope my findings will be of help to others.

Kind regards,
Wim.

By: Wim

Wim — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:39:34 +0000

hello, sorry to respond only now.
I run it on a local drive. To me it seems as if the content is about to be extracted, but cannot be placed in a directory (maybe because it is from a root sourcen in Sharepoint?).

I do appreciate you help, because I (still) need to get all the dat out of the content database.

Kind regards, Wim

By: Keith Richie

Keith Richie — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 12:20:37 +0000

Wim, is the directory you’re running it in a local directory? Or a network share? make sure you run it on a local drive.

By: Wim

Wim — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 09:52:54 +0000

Hello,

I was happy to come across this post, because I need to extract all data from a MOSS 2007 content database.

I followed all the steps stated in this post and changde the server- and database name according to our situation.
When I run the exe I get the following error-message:
E:\111>spdbex.exe
Unhandled Exception: System.ArgumentException: Path cannot be the empty string or all whitespace.
at System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory(String path, DirectorySecurity directorySecurity)
at spdbex.Program.Main(String[] args)

What could I have forgotten or done wrong? can you enlighten me?

By: Samah

Samah — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 06:10:20 +0000

Hello Richie,

I need to access an entire sharepoint site’s content in order to build a new PHP/MySQL site. I thought your code will help me extract that content. Am I mistaken? If you know of a tool that can get the pages content that would be a life saver. Thanks