About Backup and Restore

Site Studio offers a backup and restore feature on the Site Studio Administration page on the content server that you can use to create a backup of your site (as a single zip file) and restore the backup at any time. Creating a backup of your site is also a great way to transport the site from one location to another (especially where there is no network access).

The Site Studio backup feature creates a copy of your Web site and stores it in a compressed file that you can then copy from one location to another. In order to recognize the files that belong to your site, it performs a query for the following items and adds them to the import archive:

• Project file (the dDocName of the project file)

• Web site ID (where the xWebsites field contains the site ID of the site)

• Web site sections (where the xWebsiteSection field contains the site ID of the site)

• Fragment libraries (where the xWebsiteObjectType field contains the value "fragment")

It is important that the metadata values for xWebsites, xWebsiteSection, and xWebsiteObjectType be used correctly on your site in order for the contents of the site to be backed up and restored.

The backup feature uses the same archiving process that is used in site replication (see Managing Site Replication for more details).