Sharepoint Site Backup and Restore

Notes on moving a subsite to a different location.

Site Template Backup

Go to site administration. If you do not see the "Save as site template" option, type in the following after the url [url]/_layouts/savetmpl.aspx

Make sure that you choose content in the template.
Depending on the size of the site, the operation may or may not succeed.

If it suceeds, create the new site using the site template.

Sharepoint Designer

Backup the site

Create the destination website

Restore the backed up site to the new website

Error message if the site exceeds 25 Mb

Command Line

This option overcomes the size limitations above.

stsadm -o export -url [url] -filename sitebackup.dat -includeusersecurity -versions 4

stsadm -o createweb -url [url]

stsadm -o import -url [url] -filename sitebackup.dat -includeusersecurity