SharePoint and WSS - importing and exporting sites
- I have a few questions, starting with importing and exporting sites. I tried to export a site from our production server and then I was going to import it to our development server. When I exported the site, it was only 3k. Why so small? The site I chose, I'm sure, has a few MB of data. What is exported when I run the stsadm o export command? I was hoping to get the site structure and its data so I can import it to a specific location on our development server. Is that possible? I went ahead and tried to import it and got the following error though:
Your backup is from a different version of Windows SharePoint Services and cannot be restored to a server running the current version. The backup file should be restored to a server with version '1178817357.0.2868.0' or later.
Which led our admin person to research it for me and ask the following question. Why do you have MOSS 2007 and WSS installed on the development server, but only MOSS 2007 installed on the production server. I did not know because i did not build either server. My question to this is...Can that be the problem as to why the import (from above) did not work? Should we have WSS installed? Are there some features we are missing? Lastly, would this impact our SharePoint if we tried to install WSS now...after a few sites have been created?
Sorry if these sound like basic questions, but we are very new with SharePoint and are trying to get up and running. Thank you for any responses and help.- Edited byMike Walsh MVPMVP, ModeratorTuesday, November 24, 2009 6:13 AM importing and exporting sites added to Title
- Moved byMike Walsh MVPMVP, ModeratorTuesday, November 24, 2009 6:13 AMbackup/restore (From:SharePoint - General Question and Answers and Discussion)
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Hi,
Actually, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is built on top of Windows SharePoint Services. MOSS 2007 includes the full features of WSS 3.0 and also extends the functionality provided by WSS 3.0.
Since MOSS 2007 is installed on top of WSS, your production server is with both MOSS 2007 and WSS.In order to resolve the issue, I suggest you upgrade this product in both environments with SP1 or SP2. Please refer to this official reference for instructions and downloads.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/bb735839.aspxIf problem still exists, please have a look at this blog.
http://msmvps.com/blogs/shane/archive/2008/08/20/error-using-stsadm-o-restore.aspxHope it can be helpful to you.
Lily Wu- Marked As Answer byLily WuMSFT, ModeratorTuesday, December 01, 2009 1:03 AM
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- Are you perhaps trying to use the restore command "stsadm -o restore" rather than "stsadm -o import".RegardsJohn Timney
- Yes, I actually meant to say that I tried to use the restore command. Syntax of what I tried below.
stsadm -o restore -filename <location of back up file> -url <url to restore the site collection> Hi,
Actually, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is built on top of Windows SharePoint Services. MOSS 2007 includes the full features of WSS 3.0 and also extends the functionality provided by WSS 3.0.
Since MOSS 2007 is installed on top of WSS, your production server is with both MOSS 2007 and WSS.In order to resolve the issue, I suggest you upgrade this product in both environments with SP1 or SP2. Please refer to this official reference for instructions and downloads.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/bb735839.aspxIf problem still exists, please have a look at this blog.
http://msmvps.com/blogs/shane/archive/2008/08/20/error-using-stsadm-o-restore.aspxHope it can be helpful to you.
Lily Wu- Marked As Answer byLily WuMSFT, ModeratorTuesday, December 01, 2009 1:03 AM
- Do you get the same error if you use stsadm -o import
Regards
John Timney
