How to backup and restore a Sharepoint site

By Emanuele Bartolesi at May 25, 2009 07:47
Filed Under: Asp.net, Sharepoint

- Back up a sharepoint site (for the filename you can use .bak)

Stsadm –o backup –url <SiteURL> -filename <FileName>

- Restore a sharepoint site from backup

Stsadm –o restore –url <restoretoURL> -filename <filetorestorefrom>

The location for stsadm is C:\Program Files\common files\microsoft shared\web server extensions\12\bin