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
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,
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
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
I'm fairly confident that's what broke this site collection in the first place.
:)
Not the tool's fault necessarily but the Include permissions option looks
like the cause of my many problems.
From: ozmoss@ozmoss.com [mailto:ozm...@ozmoss.com] On Behalf Of Noja, Fadi
Sent: Friday, 12 June 2009
You usually get warnings on running stsadm -o import related to permissions
such as: [6/5/2009 1:57:27 PM]: Warning: User or group 16 cannot be
resolved.
Last time I did an import I had 30 odd warnings related to importing users
or groups.
Did you have any warnings/errors in your import log?
No, nothing that stopped the import.
But the (good?) thing about the content Deployment Wizard is that it doesn't
stop the import over such tedious errors. ;)
From: ozmoss@ozmoss.com [mailto:ozm...@ozmoss.com] On Behalf Of Sezai Komur
Sent: Friday, 12 June 2009 12:17 PM
To: ozmoss@ozmoss.com
I don't need to worry about workflows for this - which is great!
OK. I've created the new collection and all is good. I've recreated groups
manually and have decided to go with exporting subsite groups as opposed to the
entire site collection. The reason for this (apart from the size) is that
Sezai,
Reviewing the log file, the only errors/warning shown are for form views. But
everything appears to be importing fine regardless.
e.g.
[12/06/2009 2:56:19 PM]: Progress: Exporting File
groups/_catalogs/lt/Forms/AllItems.aspx.
[12/06/2009 2:56:20 PM]: Warning: A Web Part or Web Form
