Failure decompressing data from a cabinet file

STSADM EXPORT / IMPORT

While trying take backup i got following error message 'Failure decompressing data from a cabinet file'.













The resolution to this is to use stsadm to do the export (and subsequent import), and specify the attribute -nofilecompression.
stsadm -o export -url http://yoururl/youroldsite -includeusersecurity -nofilecompression
-filename C:\yourdirectory

stsadm -o import -url http://yoururl/yournewsite -includeusersecurity -nofilecompression
-filename C:\yourdirectory