SPARs Vs Open Deploy

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Hi Guys,

I wanted to poll this group for the best practices around deploying sitepublisher content (Components, templates, DCTs, iw-resources, sites) from one Teamsite environment to another.

I tried creating spars and was not successful with this approach, when i have components and templates it works fine but if i include the sites/pages then it never succeeded.

Before i troubleshoot anyfurther i wanted to know if spars are the only way to move sitepublisher content across environments?

I thought Opendeploy can do the same job with extended attributes set while deployment.

Please share your experience with both the approaches.

Thanks,
Arun.