Import/Export Sharepoint site

Recently we had to transfer a site from one sharepoint site to a different domain. Sharepoint does give you ability to export site/list templates but it has a limit of 10MB. There are ways to increase the limit through stsadm.exe (max 500MB) but if the file gets too big for export then it doesn't work.

Found this very good and short post which does it without any problems. It uses stsadm to import/export.

Quote:

* stsadm.exe -o export -url http://intranet/test -includeusersecurity -nofilecompression -filename C:\backup

Once you finish your export use the stsadm import command with the same nofilecompression attribute. For example:

* stsadm.exe -o import -url http://intranet/test -includeusersecurity -nofilecompression -filename C:\backup

Link:

http://ragavj.blogspot.com/2008/02/failure-decompressing-data-from-cabinet.html