Have you ever used Content Deployment tool in SharePoint Server 2007?

Have you eve come across of pain in transferring initial data from Development server to Staging server or Staging server to Production server? How did you do that? Backup & Restore? Recreated the entire solution? Did you know the best approach for that?

Well, Content Deployment in SharePoint Server 2007 is designed for transferring initial content including site structure and the master data from Development server to Staging server or Staging server to Production server.

There were not enough information about this tool and here are some good articles:

Escalation Engineer Stefan’s Content Deployment – Best Practices

I have seen the success of this tool with few of our local clients (MAS, Dilmah ).