We have one SharePoint environment which is still WSS 2.0. I need to take one site and take a backup of it and then restore it as a new site (take a 2010 site and restore it as a new 2011 site). When importing, the new site should retain all the content and permissions as the existing site. I cannot use stsadm backup/restore since it is not a top level site. I also cannot use stsadm import/export since that is for WSS 3.0. How can I accomplish this? EDIT - One last note - we cannot save the site as a template as we would need to use the "Include content" option and the site is too large for that

You can try Backup smigrate -w http://siteserver/source -f c:\backup.fwp -u domain\Administrator -pw **** Restore smigrate -r http://siteserver/destination -f c:\backup.fwp -u domain\Administrator -pw **** Please let us know if this will work or notRegards, Pratik Vyas | SharePoint Consultant | http://sharepointpratik.blogspot.com/

Running the backup command right now. So far, it's working which is great! Will post once everything is complete.

The backup finally completed successfully but I got an error on the import: Unknown option: http://siteserver/destination No sites exist at this location currently - do I need to create a blank site here and then run the command?

Ahh - I see what the issue was. I had to change: Restore smigrate -r http://siteserver/destination -f c:\backup.fwp -u domain\Administrator -pw **** to Restore smigrate -r -w http://siteserver/destination -f c:\backup.fwp -u domain\Administrator -pw **** When I run this, I get another error: http://siteserver/toplevelsite/destination is not a web. Perhaps you meant... EDIT (1/4/2011 - 12:35PM EST) - Ok, I have resolved all the errors. The latest error was because I had to create the destination site beforehand without applying any templates. I used stsadm -o createweb -url http://siteserver/toplevelsite/destination and then ran the restore command. Restore is still processing but has not errored out yet. EDIT (1/4/2011 - 2:25PM EST) - It worked! Thanks!!

Hello, Is it possible to restore a site without the *.fwp file ? Actually, I've got only the SQL Backup... Thanks.Nicolas Mattioni