Someone just asked me about moving a site with subsites to a new location, but didn’t have details.
Without knowing the situation, here are some of the countless options with considerations:
1) Site Collection level backup and restore
only applies if the subsite is a site collection and you can overwrite the exisiting top level site
use stsadm -o backup and stsadm -o restore
2) stsadm -o export and stsadm -o import
may require manual touch up
but works on site level, not limited to entire site collections
3) save site template with content
one site at a time
limited by size of the content
The default limit is 10mb for one template, but the limit can be changed
Using Site Manager (publishing feature required) to move site via UI http://servername/sites/sitename/_layouts/sitemanager.aspx
Michael, That’s a good one! As far as I can tell, it’s roughly the equivalent of export/import. Pros: UI, drag and drop Cons: limited to moves within the site collection. -Tom
you forgot the sharepoint designer…
Jamil, SharePoint Designer adds multiple options, as well. You have a a differnt backup tool there and save as a package option, for two of them. We could try to make an exhaustive list, but it would take some effort. -Tom
There is one more method which one can use to move sites: SharePoint Manager 2007. Have a look at http://www.wareprise.com/2009/04/21/how-to-move-a-site-from-one-subsite-to-another-in-sharepoint/