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Asked By: Chelsea Gray Date: Aug 27, 2006 Category: Sharepoint Views: 225

I've enumerated all the top level sites and created a script to
backup site collections using stsadm.exe.
I use the syntax;

stsadm.exe -o backup -url http://portal/personal/degaetani -filename
e:\backup\stsbu\degaetani.bak

which works fine for the top level site. I took it one step further
& tried;

stsadm.exe -o backup -url http://brportal/personal/degaetani/Report
Services -filename e:\backup\stssubbu\degaetani_Report_Services.bak

and I got the error;

"The specified URL is not a top-level Web site. The backup and
restore operations work only for top-level Web sites. Enter the URL
for a site to try the operation again.",

which coincides with the Mindsharp, "Sharepoint Admin" courseware,
Mod.13, pg.26. Yes, the enumsubwebs parameter lists all sub-sites
within a site collection, but is that all it does? Are subsites
included when backing up the top level?

Tagged:backing up site collections

9 Answers Found

Answer #1 Answered By: Laura Walker Answered On: Aug 27, 2006

stsadm.exe backs up site collections (top level sites) which includes
all subsites. You can use smigrate.exe to backup an individual subsite
with the following command:

smigrate -w "http://brportal/personal/degaetani/Report
Services" -f "e:\backup\stssubbu\degaetani_Report_Services" -e -y

However, the smigrate method does not backup any security or personal
settings. The backup file created has an *.fwp extension which is a
FrontPage web package file (FrontPage can also be used to backup the
subsite instead of smigrate). I have also found out that if you rename
the *.fwp file to *.cab, you can open it to see all of the files that it
contains.

Answer #2 Answered By: Nina Banks Answered On: Aug 27, 2006

when you run stsadm to backup you will be getting the entire site collection to include TopLevel Site and Subsites.

Answer #3 Answered By: Sharonda Mcfarland Answered On: Aug 27, 2006

...and if you're interested in keeping the security settings as well, check
out this article
blogs.msdn.com/.../490074.aspx.

Let me just say that I love the SPUtil Suite. We've created a little
auditing piece around the SPUserUtil.

Answer #4 Answered By: Kalyan Pujari Answered On: Aug 27, 2006

I get a “Page cannot be found when trying to access this article. Any ideas?

Answer #5 Answered By: Christop Mcfadden Answered On: Aug 27, 2006

There was an extra trailing “period” on the url...

blogs.msdn.com/.../490074.aspx

Answer #6 Answered By: Gopal Jamakhandi Answered On: Aug 27, 2006

Apparently the latest version just entered testing and should be out soon.

Answer #7 Answered By: Chantal Rosa Answered On: Aug 27, 2006

Yep, stsadm.exe backs up only top-level sites and their subsites in their
entirety. You can't back up subsites using that utility. For subsites, use
smigrate.exe. It's included with Sharepoint in the same directory as
stsadm.exe.

Answer #8 Answered By: Kyla Eckert Answered On: Aug 27, 2006

After renaming the fwp to a cab, I get files named 01000000.000. I extract to another destination & get the same name, which then says I can’t open the file. What should this open with?

Answer #9 Answered By: Alisha Holmes Answered On: Aug 27, 2006

The files are renamed when creating the fwp file, but you can open the manifest.xml file, search for the file you need and see which file it associated with it. For example, I opened manifest.xml in Notepad and searched for the file “Summary Accounts.xls”. This is what I found:

<File Name=”Summary Accounts.xls” Src=”31000000.000”>

I can then extract 31000000.000, rename it to an xls file and open in Excel. It’s not a very user friendly process, but it works.

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