Timeline for Can you backup a site collection structure but not include the content?
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| Nov 30, 2012 at 13:46 | comment | added | Francois Verbeeck | edited the reply to also include the tool from Chris O Brien. (mandatory in all SP IT / Dev blackbelt !) | |
| Nov 30, 2012 at 13:45 | history | edited | Francois Verbeeck | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 30, 2012 at 13:42 | comment | added | Francois Verbeeck | You could reverse engineer the site template creation to check how they are querying the content of a specific spweb / spsite (all libraries, lists, fields, content types, webs, etc,) and extracting all the meta information to get the structure. Finally I would also investigate into the content deployment API, they might have a way to get what you're expecting. | |
| Nov 29, 2012 at 19:43 | comment | added | RWL01 | I agree it would but the goal was to bypass processing the 300GB all together. I can't mark it as an answer because of this but I appreciate your input. | |
| Nov 29, 2012 at 9:31 | comment | added | Francois Verbeeck | The UI will struggle for sure with 300gb, it's already dead on environment with 4/5gb :( If it's a virtual environment, wouldn't it be faster to ask for a separate copy and do the processing on that snapshot environment (obviously outside of the current network to avoid conflicts). Good luck. | |
| Nov 28, 2012 at 19:26 | comment | added | RWL01 | (1) I attempted to do this through the web UI but it kept on spinning with no results. I attempted to do this through SPD but the option was grayed out. (2) I thought about the command line option but there is about 300GB of data / 100+ libraries / 80,000+ documents. I was looking for a way to not duplicate that much content. | |
| Nov 26, 2012 at 21:01 | history | edited | Francois Verbeeck | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 26, 2012 at 20:26 | history | answered | Francois Verbeeck | CC BY-SA 3.0 |