I am trying to restore a site via STSADM and am getting an error. My command line syntax is: stsadm.exe -o restore -url http://wssdev:19293/ -filename c:\wssbackup\backup.dat -overwrite I am getting the following error message: Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED)) Any thoughts on how to get around this? Much thanks!

Hello, Run yourcmd window with the administrator account of your farm (run as domain\administrator). Regards, Noureddine

Add your name to the 'Site Collection Administrators' in SharePoint Central Administration. That should resove this.

Noureddine ZEGHOUGH said:Hello, Run yourcmd window with the administrator account of your farm (run as domain\administrator). Regards, NoureddineIt better to login as the farm administrator,... Worked for me! Cool,... a signature