Export-SPWeb - exporting lists
Hi.
Recently I've been working with the Export-SPWeb Cmdlet, helping out a customer who needs to export a specific list.
I quickly realised that it is actually a little bit more confusing than what you would expect, so I thought I would share the following.
Example one - exporting a list that exists in the root site collection:
Export-SPWeb -Identity https://content.contoso.cloud -ItemUrl /lists/testlist -Path "c:\export\export1.cmp"
Example two - exporting a list from a site collection that is not root:
Export-SPWeb -Identity https://content.contoso.cloud/sites/site-collection2/ -ItemUrl lists/testlist2 -Path "c:\export\export2.cmp"
Example three - exporting a list that exists in a sub site, in a site collection that is not root:
Export-SPWeb -Identity https://content.contoso.cloud/sites/site-collection2/sub1/ -ItemUrl lists/testlist3 -Path "c:\export\export3.cmp"
Notice that the parameters change slightly depending on where the list exists?
Hope this saves you some time! :)
Cheers.
Comments
- Anonymous
July 16, 2016
Thanks for sharing. - Anonymous
February 23, 2017
Good shout - TechNet is not clear on tihs - Anonymous
August 17, 2017
Thanks :)