How to Restore a SharePoint 2010 Sitecollection from Prod to Pre-Prod?

How to Restore a SharePoint 2010 Sitecollection from Prod to Pre-Prod?
The patching levels are different from each environment.
Tools installation is same.
Note: Suggest me to restore a site from site template without content.
If you have any better approach please tell me.
Many Thanks,
Madhu

Hi Madhu,
It isn't possible (out of the box) to restore a production to a development site without the content.
If you're happy with restoring the content, it's quite easy to backup a SharePoint farm and then restore only a site (form the farm backup) to a development farm.
Have a look at these forum posts for more info (in the first link, I gave an example script):
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/f5e8165e-2fe1-4ca9-87bd-b0f45b1e0091/process-on-creating-a-uat-server-from-live?forum=sharepointadminprevious
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/8092c04f-ae2c-4cfa-8933-e7ecb3138fdf/how-to-backup-and-restore-a-site-along-with-its-corresponding-user-profile-data?forum=sharepointgeneralprevious
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