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Move a managed path site to new location

Asked By: Umesh Vidwans Date: Sep 04, 2008 Category: Sharepoint Views: 764

What is the best process to move a site from one location to another? To give
more detail, I have:

http://company.com/depts/HR <---- "depts" is a managed path

I want to move "HR" to:
http://company.com/departments/HR <----"departments" is another managed path

I've tried to use STSADM commands:

- backup
- restore
-export
-imports

No combination of any produce the obvious results I'm looking for here. Any
ideas?

Tagged:move managed path site to new location

3 Answers Found

Answer #1 Answered By: Emily Clark Answered On: Sep 04, 2008

I would think that stsadm backup and restore would work perfectly here.
What were the full commands you used, and what did they do (or not do)?

Answer #2 Answered By: Alycia Everett Answered On: Sep 04, 2008

If you use Stsadm Backup and restore you will need to delete the original
site collection before restoring it in the new location. Backup and restore
retains the original GUIDs so you can't restore the site collection inside
the same Web Application (actually content database) as the original site
collection.

Answer #3 Answered By: Kaila Hahn Answered On: Sep 04, 2008

I did not delete the site collection first. I bet that is it. I'll need
to test.

I did find a very easy answer to my problem however outside of the STSADM
commands. Since we use an enterprise backup system, I was able to do a 'restore'
inline to the farm but to tell it to go to another location all from the GUI.
I'll still want to test and confirm the stsadm route however.

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