How Restore a multi-tenant site and change host header

Question

Hello,

I'm trying do replicate a new test environment (FARM A)  from my production environment (Farm B). I have a multi-tenant site with 6 sites colection. 

Does anybody know what is the best procedure to do that?

I've searched a lot but and I never found something without problems. 

Answer 1

Hi.

I would suggest to use Export-SPWeb from production Farm A, then Import-SPWeb to Farm B. Export-SPWeb will export the entire site collection, if you want it can even keep the permissions(using IncludeUserSecurity).
For reference:

Export-SPWeb
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607895.aspx

Import-SPWeb
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607613.aspx

If its a publishing environment, then you could even automate the replication using a content deployment.

Content deployment overview (SharePoint Server 2010)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee721058.aspx

Regards

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Answer 2

Thanks a lot for your answser. My problem is if I do with export and import commands, I will lost all tenant site configurations (Cthub, metadata information, etc). All shared services will lost because they are not in the same database as content...