Back up and Restore Sharepoint Site

There are some methods to take a back up and restore the sharepoint site. One of the best utility is as follows:

For Back up:

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN>stsa
dm -o backup -url http://server1/sites/sitename -filename c:\backup.dat

For Restore:

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\BIN>stsa
dm.exe -o restore -url http://server2/sites/sitename -filename c:\backup.dat -o
verwrite

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