SharePoint 2007 Changing of Site Collection URL

Question

I want to change the URL of Site Collection _http://teamnet.com/old to _http://teamnet.com/new.

I found some solution to do the changing of URL via

• backing up the site collection

  stsadm -o backup -url http://teamnet.com/old -filename oldbk.bak
  

• delete the old site collection.

  stsadm –o deletesite –url http://teamnet.com/old
  

• restore the backup file to new site collection.

  stsadm -o restore -url http://teamnet.com/new -filename oldbk.bak
  

The Problem is -

When I restore the backup file to new site collection it say "Another site already exists at '/new'. Choose a new URL, or specify the -overwrite flag to overwrite the existing site."

And If I put -overwrite in end of the restore command the backup file also replaced the content of root site collection _http://teamnet.com and in _http://teamnet.com/new There is no link but Error and Recycle Bin in Left Navigation Menu.

Could anyone please guide me to properly Backup the specific site and restore the site into new Site Collection URL, Without effecting to Root Site Collection.

Thanks in Advance ~

=================== I've finally found a solution for this case,

1. Back Up the site collection /old
2. Create a new site collection /new
3. Delete /old
4. Delete /new
5. Restore backup file to /new ~~~ Now everything working fine .. hope this will helpful to someone ~~~

Answer 1

Do you have an exclusive managed path set for /new? Make sure you do otherwise a site collection is not allowed to live there and it will overwrite your root site.

Answer 2

Step 1) you were missing -overwrite

stsadm –o backup –url http://teamnet.com/old -overwrite -filename backup.dat

Step 2) delete the site

stsadm –o deletesite –url http://teamnet.com/old

Step 3) i dont know if it was a typo but you were renaming to the same site? create the new site at the new url

stsadm –o restore –url http://teamnet.com/new -overwrite -filename backup.dat

that should do the job ;)

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262087(v=office.12).aspx