Migrate to your RTM version of SharePoint 2010

Got the beta? Got some important data on it?  I have heard some rumors of an upgrade, but had also heard that MS was not going to support an upgrade from Beta to RTM.  Our team has an internal SP2010 Beta site up and going and I didn’t want to lose everything. 

We only have 2 web applications and about 15 site collections, so I tried a stsadm backup and restore first.  What do you know… it worked.  So then I backed up and restored the rest of them.  All in working order.  I also recompiled some customizations I was playing with, and poof.  Like magic, they deployed without incident, and everything is back up and going.

I found it strange that everything worked the first time, and well, happily surprised!

Here is the command I used:

stsadm –o backup –url http://mysite.myhost.com –filename myhost.bak

then on the new server

stsadm –o restore –url http://mysite.myhost.com –filename myhost.bak

I only created the web applications and not the site collections, although if you have already, you can supply the –override switch.

Happy migrations.