Hi, Sonic wrote: > I'm trying at the moment to get Excorcist to replicate content from one > DB to another (yes, I'm the Berlin guy :-) and (who would have > guessed?) I'm having some problems:
I hope I can help you here, we've run into similar issues... > -it changes the hostname in the new database, which of course causes > the site not to function any longer This is caused by the staging2live setup synchronizing the *entire* database contents, including the host records. Thus, unless your "live" host records have been created from the scratch in the "live" database or are also contained in your "staging" database, then those host records will be overridden with "staging" values. :-( The best solution to this problem is to either set up the "live" host records in the "staging" database, or to exclude the host records from being replicated. > -every time I replicate, it adds all parameters for all topics again > (which also causes the site not longer to function), e.g. replicating > four times creates four midcom component parameters for each topic This is most probably caused by your staging database not containing guids for the parameters for some reason. In this case Exorcist doesn't find any matching parameter record in the live database and just creates new parameters each time it is run. :-( The next Exorcist beta contains a fix to this issue. > -In the log files, there is a long list of messages in this form: > Broken link: 166c18fefc8c65192f82c2de4b64ae65 This is a complex way of saying that one of the imported objects contained a NULL link. :-) Due to a bug in Exorcist such links are not just ignored and you get those warning messages. I'll have it fixed in the next Exorcist beta. > -apart from the above, it doesn't do much, at least I can't see any > update of the actual content happening, at least as far as Style > Elements (which is what I'm trying to replicate) are concerned Check your staging2live.log file. You should be getting a long sequence of "Importing midgard_element object ..." lines there. BR, Jukka Zitting -- Yukatan - http://yukatan.fi/ - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Software craftmanship, JCR consulting, and Java development --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
