Hi Paul
There should be no problem in restoring using the stsadm backup/restore commands. If you create a site collection under a web app which already has a site collection it will allow you to deploy to a managed path. >From there just run a restore I would be very surprised if it fails just ensure the user you are running it under has site collection admin rights. Regards, Nathan From: ozmoss@ozmoss.com [mailto:ozm...@ozmoss.com] On Behalf Of Noja, Fadi Sent: Friday, 12 June 2009 9:27 AM To: ozmoss@ozmoss.com Subject: RE: Backup over 15GB using built-in tools [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED] Have you tried using the SPContentDeploymentWizard (www.codeplex.com/SPDeploymentWizard) by Chris O'Brien? That seemed to work a charm for me when the out of the box content deployment failed. ________________________________ From: ozmoss@ozmoss.com [mailto:ozm...@ozmoss.com] On Behalf Of Paul Noone Sent: Friday, 12 June 2009 9:16 AM To: ozmoss@ozmoss.com Subject: RE: Backup over 15GB using built-in tools [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED] My intention is to restore it out-of-place to a newly created site collection at the root of a managed path. e.g. domain.com/site1 -> domain.com/site2 Hoping this is possible. If not, are there any limitations to the import/export command? None are stated. BTW Sezai, Nathan et al, the new site collection works like a charm and has none of the permission or access issues being experienced in the other one. I believe something went screwy with the security groups in the original import. Regards, Paul Online Developer, ICT CEO Sydney From: ozmoss@ozmoss.com [mailto:ozm...@ozmoss.com] On Behalf Of Noja, Fadi Sent: Friday, 12 June 2009 9:13 AM To: ozmoss@ozmoss.com Subject: RE: Backup over 15GB using built-in tools [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED] I have used stsadm to backup far larger web sites. However I have had it fail a few time due to app pools being recycled or people accessing the site (or even a search crawl). Do you need to restore it or are you just backing it up? If it's backup, it's probably easier to backup the SQL database itself. Much quicker and safer. Just make sure the site is locked at the time though. ________________________________ From: ozmoss@ozmoss.com [mailto:ozm...@ozmoss.com] On Behalf Of Paul Noone Sent: Friday, 12 June 2009 9:05 AM To: ozmoss@ozmoss.com Subject: Backup over 15GB using built-in tools Hi all, I've got a site collection I want to backup but MS advise that stsadm backup operation shouldn't be used for site collections larger than 15GB. Does this limit only apply to site collections? i.e. is it safe to backup the entire web app instead? Kind regards, Paul ________________________________ Support procedure: https://www.codify.com/lists/support List address: ozmoss@ozmoss.com Subscribe: ozmoss-subscr...@ozmoss.com Unsubscribe: ozmoss-unsubscr...@ozmoss.com List FAQ: http://www.codify.com/lists/ozmoss <http://www.codify.com/lists/ozmoss> Other lists you might want to join: http://www.codify.com/lists <http://www.codify.com/lists> ________________________________ Support procedure: https://www.codify.com/lists/support List address: ozmoss@ozmoss.com Subscribe: ozmoss-subscr...@ozmoss.com Unsubscribe: ozmoss-unsubscr...@ozmoss.com List FAQ: http://www.codify.com/lists/ozmoss <http://www.codify.com/lists/ozmoss> Other lists you might want to join: http://www.codify.com/lists <http://www.codify.com/lists> ________________________________ Support procedure: https://www.codify.com/lists/support List address: ozmoss@ozmoss.com Subscribe: ozmoss-subscr...@ozmoss.com Unsubscribe: ozmoss-unsubscr...@ozmoss.com List FAQ: http://www.codify.com/lists/ozmoss <http://www.codify.com/lists/ozmoss> Other lists you might want to join: http://www.codify.com/lists <http://www.codify.com/lists> ________________________________ Support procedure: https://www.codify.com/lists/support List address: ozmoss@ozmoss.com Subscribe: ozmoss-subscr...@ozmoss.com Unsubscribe: ozmoss-unsubscr...@ozmoss.com List FAQ: http://www.codify.com/lists/ozmoss <http://www.codify.com/lists/ozmoss> Other lists you might want to join: http://www.codify.com/lists <http://www.codify.com/lists> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Support procedure: http://www.codify.com/lists/support List address: ozmoss@ozmoss.com Subscribe: ozmoss-subscr...@ozmoss.com Unsubscribe: ozmoss-unsubscr...@ozmoss.com List FAQ: http://www.codify.com/lists/ozmoss Other lists you might want to join: http://www.codify.com/lists