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If you've not done it, could you mark Ian's reply to you as the answer for this thread? If you want to mark my first reply as another answer, to your second question, feel free (I can't recall if you can mark more than one message as the answer.) 

Glad to see you got your issues resolved.

Joe, are you asking for clarification of Ian's suggestion, about removing the license key? 

You do that by editing the [cf]\lib\license.properties file, where you'd remove the sn value (leave just sn=), then save and restart CF. of course, you want to copy it and put it back to revert back to that previous license  when finished. (More in a moment.)

By removing the key this way,you revert CF to the Developer edition, which is the same functionality as Enterprise, but limited to localhost plus the first couple of IP addresses to hit the server (requests from other IPs beyond that are then are rejected until CF is restarted). 

The only way to switch from Standard to Full Enterprise is to enter an Enterprise license key, of course. His point, though, was that for the sake of what you're doing, you could avoid that by just using the developer edition to create and then restore the archive.

As for adding the key back, you can do it either by putting it back in the license.properties file, or by using the "system information" page (click the "i" icon in the top right of the CF admin). Adding a license key there takes effect immediately, whereas again if you edit the license.properties file, you need to restart CF for it to take effect.