How to Deploy a SharePoint 2010 Web Application/Site from One Server to the Other?

Option1

1. Use SQL Management Studio to backup the Content Database

How to: Back Up a Database (SQL Server Management Studio):
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187510.aspx

2. Restore the Content Database to your new SQL server

How to: Restore a Database Backup (SQL Server Management Studio):
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms177429.aspx

3. Create a new web application in Central Admin on the new farm:

Create a Web application (SharePoint Foundation 2010):
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288705.aspx

4. Delete the content Database that get's created by the new web application(from step 4)

Central Admin > Application Management > Content Databases > delete the empty db from your web application (created in step 3)

5. Use SharePoint Management Shell(Mount-SPContentDatabase), Stsadm(-o addcontentdb) or Central Admin to add the contentdatabase:

Add a content database (SharePoint Server 2010):
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc825314.aspx

6. Make sure that your account has administrative permissions on the site collection(update site collection administrator)

Add or remove site collection administrators (SharePoint Server 2010):

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff631156.aspx

Option 2: Site Collection Backup

1. Create a backup of your site collection which gives you a .bak file using stsadm tool or using the Central Administration

2. use the following command line tool to restore this backup file

stsadm -o restore -url http://servername/sites/sitename -filename C:\Backups\siteCollectionBackup.bak -restoremethod overwrite -overwrite

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262087(office.12).aspx

Option 3: Deploy Custom WebParts

• http://www.cmswire.com/cms/tips-tricks/how-to-deploy-sharepoint-webparts-000618.php
• When built, it creates wsp file which can be used for the deployment
• Use either stsadm tool or powershell tool to deploy the wsp file
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163379.aspx#S4
• Addsolution parameter: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288721(office.12).aspx
• Deploysolution parameter: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288449(office.12).aspx
• Deploywppack parameter: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288159(office.12).aspx
• Stsadm command-line tool
• From msdn forum: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/sharepointdevelopment/thread/5a51ea41-2075-4dcc-b99e-e1b10628b969

Option 3: Deploy Custom Html or ASP pages

One manual way is to create a virtual directory inside your web application and put the pages there.