Thank you for your advice. I had no intention of doing this myself, I have  a 
new technical person who will be doing this, I just needed confirmation of the 
basic procedure. 

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> On 22 Feb 2017, at 20:04, Vincent Meijer <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Lucy,
> 
> Personally I would have somebody on-site with you who knows that she/he's 
> doing before bringing anything to Production.
> It is not rocket science, but you are putting your precious data online and 
> without the right precautions you could be at risk of losing it.
> Again, this is just my opinion. :)
> 
> However, there are some instructions available to get you started, e.g. here: 
> http://arches-hip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/extra/ 
> And especially here: 
> http://arches-hip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/extra/#serving-your-arches-app-with-apache
>  
> 
> 
> Regarding getting your app to your server, there are many ways.
> Often people use a code repository system like GIT, create a 'tag' (which is 
> a snapshot of your code) and download it from your repository to your 
> production server. 
> In your case that will only be your customized app. You should to the 
> installation of Arches and its dependencies like you did on the development 
> server.  
> 
> Regarding your database, your option 2 sounds like what you should do. 
> I assume your authority files and resource graphs are included in your custom 
> app, so after installing Arches you would do something like:
> 
> python manage.py packages -o install
> python manage.py packages -o load_concept_scheme -s 
> /your-app/source_data/concepts/authority_files
> 
> 
> I know these directions are a little fragmentary (it's hard to explain all at 
> once), but I hope this helps.
> 
> Regards,
> Vincent
> 
> 
>> On Tuesday, 21 February 2017 12:38:22 UTC-5, Lucy Fletcher-Jones wrote:
>> Although we are a long way off from transferring to the production server, I 
>> would just like to ask those who are experienced in this, what the steps 
>> are. We are customising Arches so have many small changes.
>> Do you either:
>> 1. Back up the Arches programs on the test server without resource data, of 
>> course, and restore to the production server, assuming that the dependencies 
>> are the same on both.
>> Or 
>> 2. Install Arches again on the Production server loading the modified 
>> authority files and resource graphs and copy over the app customisation 
>> directories?
>> Thank you very much,
>> 
>> Lucy
>> 
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