Moving Sharepoint 3.0 2007

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Moving Sharepoint 3.0 2007

I'm moving our Sharepoint site 3.0 2007 from a Windows server 2003 machine to windows server 2008 RC2. The Sharepoint site uses a sql database which will also be moved to the new server. I need to move all site content included any documents that have been uploaded to the site and the sql database.

Is there any easy way to simply backup the site and the restore it on the new server? or do I need to backup and restore the sql database separately?

Will backing up and restoring the site move uploaded documents as well?

Thank you

Backing up and restoring will certainly move your documents
You can do a catastrophic back up and restore, which will take all of your data

Vladi Gubler 2010-09-21 04:47:23

How do I do a catastrophic backup? so that will backup my sql database as well and restore it automatically one the new server?

no spoon 2010-09-21 05:09:33

it's one of the options under stsadm -o backup for instance

Vladi Gubler 2010-09-21 16:33:13

You do not need to backup the SQL database separately. If customizations have been done on SharePoint site 3.0 then you need to consider it as well because for customized developments/deployments you have to prepare the destination machine as well.

Azher Iqbal 2010-09-21 09:53:50

The central administrator has a backup/restore function which includes a full backup option. Can I use this to move the site instead of using the command line?

no spoon 2010-09-21 21:07:34

Yes, definitely you can use that option. Again custom deployed assemblies should not go in the backup automatically. If custom packages are deployed then you shall have to take them yourself.

Azher Iqbal 2010-09-22 05:00:40

that sounds great, i'll give it a try.

no spoon 2010-09-22 20:59:07

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