Exporting allows you to manually move all or part of a portal project to a Portal server.
If you do not have FTP or copy access to your Portal server, then exporting is the recommended method of deploying a portal project. These instructions assume that you are exporting your portal project files to your file system with the intention of manually deploying the exported project to a WebSphere® Portal server.
Important: Do not attempt to manually deploy the exported files to a portal server other than the one you selected in step 4. The generated files contain information from this portal server and it will not work with other servers.