So before anyone asks I need to use stsadm due to my lack of exposure to powershell. Anyway, I have run into issues using the export/import commands. The source and target are 2010 publishing portals. The goal is to quickly deploy a small root collection to a root at the target. In the future it will be all managed by content deployment.
The site exported but on import errors occur. Here is the detail. As I indicated the publishing site has custom page layouts/masterpage and styles. No custom features or web parts.
Verbose: Source URL: _catalogs/users [12/16/2010 11:40:52 AM] [Folder] [users] Error: 0x80070005Access denied. [12/16/2010 11:40:52 AM] [Folder] [users] Debug: at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequest.UpdateFileOrFolderProperties(String bstrWebUrl, String bstrWebRelativeUrl, Object varProperties, Int32 fMigrationSemantics, Int32 fReGhost, Byte& piLevel) at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFolder.UpdateOnImport() at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.FolderSerializer.SetObjectData(Object obj, SerializationInfo info, StreamingContext context, ISurrogateSelector selector) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.XmlFormatter.CallSetObjectData(Object obj, SerializationInfo objectData, ISerializationSurrogate surrogate, ISurrogateSelector selector) [12/16/2010 11:40:52 AM] FatalError: 0x80070005Access denied. [12/16/2010 11:40:52 AM] Debug: at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequest.UpdateFileOrFolderProperties(String bstrWebUrl, String bstrWebRelativeUrl, Object varProperties, Int32 fMigrationSemantics, Int32 fReGhost, Byte& piLevel) at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFolder.UpdateOnImport() at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.FolderSerializer.SetObjectData(Object obj, SerializationInfo info, StreamingContext context, ISurrogateSelector selector) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.XmlFormatter.CallSetObjectData(Object obj, SerializationInfo objectData, ISerializationSurrogate surrogate, ISurrogateSelector selector) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.XmlFormatter.ParseObject(Type objectType, Boolean isChildObject) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.XmlFormatter.DeserializeObject(Type objectType, Boolean isChildObject, DeploymentObject envelope) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.XmlFormatter.Deserialize(Stream serializationStream) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.ObjectSerializer.Deserialize(Stream serializationStream) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.SPImport.DeserializeObjects() at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.SPImport.Run()