Backing Up and Restoring with Office SharePoint Designer 2007

I have discussed the backup and restore options for SharePoint using both the SharePoint Central Administration and SQL Server 2005’s built-in tools. SharePoint Designer 2007 also enables you to back up and restore SharePoint sites. The following sections explain how you can use SharePoint Designer 2007 to perform these backup and restore functions.

Backing Up a Site with SharePoint Designer

A user can backup a site with SharePoint Designer by performing the following:

  1. In SharePoint Designer, open the site you’d like to back up.

  2. Go to Site menu and choose Administration, Backup Web Site, as shown in Figure 14-5.

    Figure 14-5. SharePoint Designer enables you to easily back up a site.

  3. On the ...

Get Windows® SharePoint® Services 3.0 Inside Out now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.