How I migrated a site collection from one MOSS 2007 farm to another - Brainlitter

Pretty smooth and simple really…

Reference:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288716.aspx

All I had to do was…

Backup:
cd %COMMONPROGRAMFILES%Microsoft sharedWeb server extensions12Bin

stsadm -o backup -url http://sourceserver:port -filename backupfilename

Restore:
cd %COMMONPROGRAMFILES%Microsoft sharedWeb server extensions12Bin

stsadm -o restore -url http://destinationserver:port -filename c:tempbackupfilename

Notes:

In my case, I moved the site collection from one farm in one domain, to another farm in another domain. So, the Site Collection Administrators defined were bogus and I had to change them, in order to gain access to the site, but that was easily done in Central Administration (Site Collection Administrators)

As well, I needed to install a feature that was in one MOSS install to the other and had a really clearly defined error about the feature ‘missing’ but that was easily fixed by deploying that solution to the new MOSS installed too