Moving a site to a different site collection

Question

I am looking for a C# script that will move a site with all permissions and content to another site collection. Google isn't helping me or maybe i dont know what exactly to look for.

e.g.

I have a site

usa3001.abcd.com\sites\mysite1 . . . usa3001.abcd.com\sites\mysite103

I want to create a new site collections , it should move all everything e.g. content and permissions

usa3001.abcd.com\mysite1 . . . usa3001.abcd.com\mysite102

I know I can use stsadm to export it and import it but that gonna take too much time and effort for support time and they wont know whats happening.

Answer 1

For a single site (SPWeb) try using the content migration APIs. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms453426.aspx

SPExportObject exportObject = new SPExportObject();

and i've been successful with these settings:

            SPExportSettings settings = new SPExportSettings();
            settings.FileCompression = false;
            settings.ExportMethod = SPExportMethodType.ExportAll;
            settings.IncludeSecurity = SPIncludeSecurity.All;
            settings.IncludeVersions = SPIncludeVersions.All;
            settings.HaltOnWarning = false;
            settings.ExcludeDependencies = false;

For site collections you can do SPSiteCollection.Backup and SPSiteCollection.Restore:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.administration.spsitecollection.backup

        SPWebApplication webApp = SPWebApplication.Lookup("http://url");
        SPSiteCollection siteCollections = webApp.Sites;
        siteCollections.Backup(,,);

Answer 2

Exporting a site should grab all the subsites as well. I just did that this week by exporting an entire site collection and importing it as a subsite within an existing site collection. Every subsite in the source site made it to the destination site.

I use:

stsadm -o export -url http://domain/sites/site -filename c:\temp\site.dat -nofilecompression -includeusersecurity -versions 4

and

stsadm -o import -url http://domain/sites/newsite/subsite -filename c:\temp\site.dat -nofilecompression -includeusersecurity 

Answer 3

Great question!

I found this article to be a good resource for me on this topic: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms438819.aspx

(Content Migration object model, the most flexible option)