Export Portals

With Portal Server-Manage All or Manage Configuration permission, you can export portals to an archive using WebCenter Portal Administration, saving the portal archive to a local file system or to a remote server file system.

Note:

You can export portal templates too, but this is a separate process. You cannot export portals and portal templates into a single archive.

To export one or more portals:

Enter a name for the Portal Archive with the file extension .par or accept the default name.

The default filename for the portal archive includes a random number to ensure uniqueness: webcenter_random_number.par
Select Include Portal Content to export each portal's content folder. This option is available only when the content repository is WebCenter Content Server.
A folder is automatically created in WebCenter Portal's content repository for portals that use document services to create, manage, and store portal documents (files, folders, wikis, blogs). Only content that is stored in this folder can be exported with the portal. The export does not, for example, include web content/pages displayed through Content Presenter since this information is not stored in the portal's content folder.
Note:
- Including content folders increases the size of the portal archive. If you are exporting a large number of portals or large content folders, make sure that your portal archive size does not exceed the maximum upload limit of 2 GB.
- If you are managing legacy portals with assets that store artifacts in MDS, Oracle recommends that you relocate all dependent artifacts from MDS to your content server. If you choose not to move artifacts stored in MDS and do not include MDS content within the asset archive, you can use MDS WLST commands exportMetadata/importMetadata to move the MDS content another time. For example:
```
exportMetadata(application='webcenter', server='WC_Portal',
 toLocation='/tmp/content',
 docs='/oracle/webcenter/siteresources/scopedMD/shared/**')

importMetadata(application='webcenter', server='WC_Portal',
 fromLocation='/tmp/content',
 docs='/oracle/webcenter/siteresources/scopedMD/shared/**')
```
Select Include Shared Assets to export the shared assets used in the portal.
Click Export.
Progress information displays during the export process.
Specify a location for the export archive (.par file) when the export process is complete.
Select either of the following:
- Download - Saves the export .par file to your local file system.
  
  Your browser downloads and saves the archive locally. The actual download location depends on your browser settings.
  
  Some browsers have settings that restrict the size of downloads. If your export archive is large and does not download, check your browser settings.
- Save to Server - Saves the export .par file to a server location. The .par file is saved to the default path DOMAIN_HOME/WC_Archives, where DOMAIN_HOME refers to the domain location where WebCenter Portal is installed.
  
  When the file is saved, click OK to close the Information dialog.
Click Close.