How I migrated a site collection from one MOSS 2007 farm to another

Pretty smooth and simple really...

Reference:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288716.aspx

All I had to do was...

Backup:
cd %COMMONPROGRAMFILES%\Microsoft shared\Web server extensions\12\Bin

stsadm -o backup -url http://sourceserver:port -filename backupfilename

Restore:
cd %COMMONPROGRAMFILES%\Microsoft shared\Web server extensions\12\Bin

stsadm -o restore -url http://destinationserver:port -filename c:\temp\backupfilename

Notes:

• In my case, I moved the site collection from one farm in one domain, to another farm in another domain. So, the Site Collection Administrators defined were bogus and I had to change them, in order to gain access to the site, but that was easily done in Central Administration (Site Collection Administrators)


• As well, I needed to install a feature that was in one MOSS install to the other and had a really clearly defined error about the feature 'missing' but that was easily fixed by deploying that solution to the new MOSS installed too

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