SharePoint 2010: Backup and Restore a List
SharePoint 2010, by all means, offers better ways to perfom Granular backups than it was done in MOSS. For example to take a back of a List Go to the Central Administration Select Backup and Restore Under Granular Backup select "Export a site or list" option. Select the list/site that you want to backup and enter the path where you wnat your backup ".cmp" file, The required path must point to a space in network drive. Therefore create a folder on a local drive and inside the properties of this folder, under Sharing, select "Share". This will give a network path to this folder. You can select the addtion options such as "export all security permissions on that list and "Export Full Security", Press "Start Export". This process will result in to a .cmp file which is actually the back up. Now to restore that we will use powershell command as given below: Import-SPWeb "http://Server/sites/SiteCollection...