emc

I'm having problem with backing up and restoring a site collection. whenever I transfer a site to another server, the design of the site appears wrong. Im using sharepoint designer for backing up and restoring the site. I dont know the proper way of transfering a site to another server, any help would be appreciated.


Re: SharePoint - General Question and Answers and Discussion Backup and Restore Problem.

KG@SF

I don't know much about SPDesigner's backup approch to comment. I will use Central Admin / Operations for backup and restore.





Re: SharePoint - General Question and Answers and Discussion Backup and Restore Problem.

KG@SF

Hi,

Why don't you use Central Administration / Operations for Backup and restore.

KG





Re: SharePoint - General Question and Answers and Discussion Backup and Restore Problem.

emc

What I want to backup is a site collection that was customize using sharepoint designer and I want to transfer it to a different sharepoint server. when i got there in the central admin I cant see the customize site collection that I did. can you be more specific anyway thanks allot!




Re: SharePoint - General Question and Answers and Discussion Backup and Restore Problem.

Christian Dira

If your server is sharepoint 2007, and the site was customized with sharepoint designer, then using the admin central backup/restore tool you will be able to restore your customization as well. Here are the steps:

- On server 1 where your site is inititate a backup. Depending on your environment either to a san location or an external drive if you have a small environment

- On the new server, run restore, and choose a location to restore to, like a new site collection.

You are trying to accomplish what used to be possible with Frontpage and 2 servers, such as publishing a site to another server. Sharepoint works differently where your content is stored on a database.

Chris D, MCTS Sharepoint 2007

www.moss07.org





Re: SharePoint - General Question and Answers and Discussion Backup and Restore Problem.

emc

How would I backup the site collection that I created coz when I got there in the operation/ backup and restore and then perform a backup I cant see the site collection that I created so I cant backup the site. I have tried using sharepoint designer using backup and restore to another server the problem I encounter is that the design of the site that I restore seems to wrong. the css and master pages was not the latest files.




Re: SharePoint - General Question and Answers and Discussion Backup and Restore Problem.

dattard

Why don't you use STSADM Export the site collection and import it into the destination server.

Export:

stsadm -o export -url http://yourserver/yoursitecollection -filename c:\Export.cab

And import on the destination server using

stsadm -o import -url http://destinationserver/sitecollection -filename C:\Export.cab

I find this the best way of migrating customisations. Although there might be a few problems using this approach for Lookups on Lists.






Re: SharePoint - General Question and Answers and Discussion Backup and Restore Problem.

emc

I've done that already and the first problem I encounterd is permission or security problems we solved it by changing the site collection administrator in the central admin of the sharepoint server the next problem we encounter is that we cant view the site. the problem was this "An unexpected error has occurred." when I open the site using sharepoint designer I can see the files. We haven't solve this problem and we were on a rush right now. any help would be really appreciated. and thanks also for all of your replies.