To recover the Internet Information Services (IIS) metabase, you must be a member of the Administrators group on the local computer. As a security best practice, log on to your computer by using an account that is not in the Administrators group, and then use the runas command to run IIS Manager as an administrator.

At a command prompt, type

For more conceptual information about backing up and restoring the metabase, see Backing Up and Restoring the Metabase Using Backup Files (IIS 6.0).

For specific procedures that step you through the process of recovering the metabase from your backup files backing up and restoring the metabase, see Backing Up and Restoring the Metabase in IIS 6.0.