Deleting a Site

Question

Currently I have a structure as below:

• http://thesite
• http://thesite/my (MySite)

I need to delete and re-create the site "thesite" but I don't want to lose the site "my".

Is this somehow possible?

Answer 1

If there are many such cases, then I would suggest you to use Metalogic Migration tools, if this is one of the case then , following should help.

Take a full backup of the subsite (http://thesite/my) (MySite)

stsadm -o backup -url "http://thesite/my (MySite)" -filename "<<add the file path>>"

Delete the sitecollection in central admin, take a backup of whole site collection before u delete , to be on safer side :)

recreate the root sitecollection (http://thesite) the way you want and restore the subsite back

stsadm -o restore -url "http://thesite/my (MySite)" -filename "<<add the file path>>" 

Hope it helps

Answer 2

You could save the "my" site as a Site Template (including content) and then importing the resulting .stp/.wsp into the Site Template Gallery of the new "thesite". Then, create a site based on that template.

That would work if the "my" site is not heavy on data.

Answer 3

Another option if you do not have much content in your site is to use:

Site Actions > Site Settings > Content and Structure (http://thesite/_layouts/sitemanager.aspx)

Right-click the site and select Move