How do you copy a site?

[Bob]

Is there an easy way to make an exact copy of an existing
Sharepoint Portal 2003 Site? The reason I am asking is
because we want to make a copy of our live Sharepoint
Portal site that we can test things on.

Thanks for any help in advance

Bob

[Tyler DeNormandie]

If it was me, I would just backup the Site/Portal, then on the test server
just restore the Site/Portal.

You could use, STSadm.exe (site) or SPSbackup.exe (portal)

Tyler

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Unfortunatly, I wanted them both to sit on the same
server. When I try to restore to a different Portal, it
says that it cannot do it because that Site ID already
exists.

Is there any other way?

Thanks

Bob

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[Bil Simser [MVP]]

There are a couple of other options:

1. Use smigrate
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3df85705-5635-40db-adbe-e13ab8684a60&displaylang=en

2. Use FP2003 and copy the site that way

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Development Evangelist
Microsoft MVP - SharePoint Portal Server
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