Whoops, have I misconfigured the way my team sites are created?
Upon devising a backup strategy, I noticed that whilst my MOSS farm backup seems to work fine, my individual site backup only picks up my main intranet site and all personal mysites. Once I'd investigated, it turns out all of my team sites were created ashttp://intranet/SiteDirectory/teamsitename, rather thanhttp://intranet/sites/teamsitename - as the stsadm backup command seems to require if I want to back them up individually.. Therefore, all of my teamsite seem to be included under one backup file 'intranet'.
If I navigate to 'Site Content and Structure' view on my top level site, I can see 'Sites' underneath it, and all my team sites appear as I would expect them to underneath i.e. I envisaged an Intranet top level site (collection), with all the department teamsites/workspaces underneath.
My question is, basically I'm a little lost as to what I've done here - have I created a /sitedirectory/ path somewhere that I should have called /sites/? Or maybe I've created all my sites in the wrong place... Being a SharePoint noob, I'd really appreciate some help...
Daryll,
What is the outcome you are hoping for? When you are creating a "Site" from the main intranet what are you doing to create it? I'm just a little lost on what you want to happen versus what you are getting.
Stephen [a shaped squiggle] sharepoint911.com
http://sharepoint911.com
Hi Stephen, please forgive me, I'm not explaining myself very well... This is all pretty new to me.
The long and short of it is this. I have a MOSS 2007 intranet portal site (i.e http://intranet:80), and several sites (I call subsites) that I've created underneath it. I want to be able to backup the main Intranet site, personal mysites and each of the subsites underneath the Intranet site individually. Upon looking into this, I thought I might have created my subsites in the wrong area.
Currently when I use a VBscript that I downloaded from the internet to backup my SharePoint sites individually, I get a .bak file for each of the mysites and a large intranet.bak - which I presume contains all of the subsites aswell as the main Intranet pages. So, as a test I tried backing up my Personnel subsite using stsadm.exe with the following command:
stsadm.exe -o backup -url http://intranet/sitedirectory/personnel -overwrite -filename s:\backup\personnel.bak
Which produced the following error: "The specified URL is not a top-level web site. The backup and restore operations work only for top-level web sites. Enter the URL for a site to try the operation again."
So, my question is: Where should I have created my subsites in order to have been able to back them up individually, or is this not possible at all for 'subsites'?
If I need to create my sites as Top-Level sites in order to back them up individually, is there a way of moving or copying the existing sites I've created?
Help!!
You may want to look at import/export for moving content around
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/16a7e571-3531-4a4e-baa7-f348a9f9d1d11033.mspx?mfr=true
If you want to be able to do individual backups with your current method I think you will need to make each a Top-Level site.
