copy site collection in Sharepoint 2010

Question

I would like to be able to copy the entire site collection http://server.ltd/sites/ABC to http://server.ltd/sites/DEF

is there any easy solution, because I tried to Save as template at the site level then tried to upload the solution to the newly created site collection but it failed.

Is this even possible ?

Answer 1

You can use powershell for that:

Backup-SPSite -Identity http://server.ltd/sites/ABC -Path c:\temp\abc.bak

and then restore with:

Restore-SPSite http://server.ltd/sites/DEF -Path c:\temp\abc.bak

Make sure you check the available options like preserving security information, versioning, etc:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee748617(v=office.14).aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607788.aspx

Answer 2

you can backup sitecollection with powershell and restore it again in new path , this link could help you.