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Best method to delete/recreate a site collection in MOSS

Asked by Tray896 in MOSS-Sharepoint

Hey guys.  My team has recently taken over administration of our corporate sharepoint environment so I'm having to learn on the fly here.  We are currently in the process of working on a project in which we are exporting data from production and importing into our pre-prod environment.  Part of this process is to get a clean site collection/content db in pre-prod so that we know it is a clean environment.  I've had trouble finding any documentation showing the best steps for deleting and recreating a site collection.  I've tried using the 'Delete Site Collection' option from the central administration GUI, but this takes forever and eventually times out.  I've also deleted the site collection via stsadm.exe with some limited success.  Each site collection is assigned it's own content db, so I'm assuming I need to delete both the site collection and the content database in order to truly clean it up.  I don't want to delete the entire web application because there are other site collections within it that are currently being tested.  I just want to delete the sitecollection1 part of this example: test.site.com/sitecollection1

So here are my questions:

What should I delete?  The site collection, the content db, or both?  
If both, what order should they be done in?
And finally, what is the best method for performing these operations...stsadm or the GUI?  Please let me know the steps/commands to run.  Thanks!Start Free Trial
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