Restore a production sharepoint web farm to a new web farm - sam

If you have a production WSS 3.0 sharepoint environment and need to copy the production data into a test environment web farm (different web farm), it can be done using SQL backups and restore.
I am more comfortable using this method than using stsadm tool. This could also be helpful when your production system crashes and you need to quickly get a backup sharepoint farm up and running with the latest production data. Read this article ! With a Target farm steps ( if you are setting up a brand new WSS 3.0 farm) Restore a production sharepoint web farm to a new web farm - sam (P. Erol GIRAUDY MVP MOSS)