hi - this may be straightforward, but i let me know if i am missing anything here. I have two sites: One is http://sharepoint/fin which is an empty team site. The other (http://sharepoint/projects/data) has two subsites. How can I replace /fin with the /data site? Does stsadm allow me to move it there along with subsites?

Hi,I am guessing you are using MOSS and you're trying to move just sites, and not site collectionsThe easiest way I found is to go to "Site Actions" > "Manage Content and structure". From there, select the sites you want to move, Click the "Actions" menu and select "Move...". Navigate to the site where you want to move them to, then click OK.Hope that helps. Best Regards, Ammar MCT http://ahmed-ammar.blogspot.com Posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Hi DOCMAN, From your description, I’m not sure if you want to move a site collection to another site collection or move the subsite http://sharepoint/projects/data which has two subsites to another site collection. If you want to move a site collection to another, then you can use command line: stsadm –o backup/restore or stsadm –o export/import. For more information about the command line, please refer to: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263441.aspx http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262087.aspx http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262759.aspx http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc261866.aspx Note: Do not use the Stsadm backup operation for site collections larger than 15 gigabytes (GB). For larger site collections, see the recommendations in Back up and restore site collections by using built-in tools (Office SharePoint Server 2007). http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc706871.aspx If you want to move the subsite to another site collection, you can only use or stsadm –o export/import as stsadm backup/restore can only be used at the site collection level. Note: Although using the export operation saves data for you, it is not the same as using the backup operation. You cannot save a workflow, alerts, features, solutions, or Recycle-Bin state by using the export operation. For more information, please refer to: Archive and retrieve content by using Stsadm import and export operations http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc706866.aspx http://coppockscoolness.blogspot.com/2008/05/sharepoint-subsite-move-up-1-level.html You can also consider using the tool which make use of Content Migration API for content deployment http://www.codeplex.com/SPDeploymentWizard Hope this helps. Lu Zou

thanks Lu. I was able to get everything moved over using stsadm. Ahmed - I never paid attention to that Move feature. I'll give it a try next time. thanks