Backup/Restore using SPD

[Curlz]

Hi All,
I have an Intranet site designed using WSS 3.0. The content
storage used on the site is 777MB. I have attempted on several
occasions to backup the site using the backup/restore functionality in
SPD, but was unsuccessful. After several searches on this issue i
found a post that highlighted that the backup feature in SharePoint
Designer only works for sites smaller than 26MB. This presents a
grave issue for me as I need to backup the site and transfer it to
another server. Please let me know if anyone can offer some guidance
on how i can accomplish this backup. Many thanks.

[john meyers]

If you have access to the command line I would recommend the following:

I personally use the STSADM command every week to take production and
copy it to a development server


stsadm -o backup -url http://website -filename C:\website.bak -overwrite

to restore on the new server copy the file over

stsadm -o restore -url http://website -filename C:\website.bak -overwrite


You just need to create a blank Web Application and Site Collection
with most likely the same name as before to import it into.