Some of us are great at command line syntax and some of us are not. Cut and Paste to the rescue for those of us aren't. What a shame that sometimes cutting and pasting to avoid problems sometimes causes them instead. During a recent SBS 2003 to SBS2008 migration the client was a heavy user of CompanyWeb. Most migrations that I have done the client did not even have a clue as to what CompanyWeb was, so frequently I did not have to go through the tedious steps of Migrating CompanyWeb. This particular customer needed it Migrated and Imported into the new CompanyWeb site. I went through all the steps to migrate the content database and create the OldCompanyWeb site as a secondary site succesfully. When I tried to backup the newly created site using cut and pasted command line from the Microsoft Migration White Paper I got "Command line error" and stsadm usage intructions.
After doing web searches for my particular error all that I found were work-arounds using backup and restore vs. Import and export or removing the -includeusersecurity switch. I did not want to risk trashing the new site by using a work-around, so I tried using the export funtion without the –includeusersecurity switch. It worked, so I decided to manually type the switch, much to my suprise that worked as well. I have no idea what was being copied over when cut and pasting but it was something it didn’t like in the last line of the command. Hope this helps other command line challenged users.
