Hi Kelly, I would recommend simply exporting the PROD project and importing onto the DEV server.
When it comes to CMS and PROD/DEV planning, I have a couple of other suggestions. 1. Have 1 CMS environment, the project has a PROD and DEV project variants. This way, a developer can freely do DEV work in DEV variant using the latest content data without worrying about content migration/sync. 2. Have 1 CMS cluster, but 2 servers in this cluster, one for PROD and one for DEV. Have a PROD project, when a DEV project is needed, make a copy from PROD project. When doing server intensive DEV work, use the DEV server of the cluster, so crashing that server would not crash PROD server. The con of this 2 approaches is that only 1 license key, which may not have enough SmartTree license to support all user activities. -Jian On Wednesday, April 18, 2012 11:41:35 AM UTC-4, Kelly wrote: > > Hi All - A quick Best Practices question here... > > I'm writing requirements doc and network plan to set up a Test > Environment which should be a mirror copy of our Production > Environment (MS 10.1 SP2 w/SQL) > > We still have RedDot servers in place that were used as our Test Bed a > few months ago when we upgraded Production to 10. So there is > hardware already available with the current server version installed > that I need and most (hopefully all) the folder permissions set up > correctly across the server. > > I’m just not entirely sure if it is better to simply just upgrade the > projects on my Test Servers from a backup of our Production Server. Or > if it's better to re-image these Test servers entirely from our > current Production Servers. > > Thoughts? Reasons why 1 method might be better than the other?? > > Many Thanks! > Kelly > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RedDot CMS Users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/reddot-cms-users/-/g8YSPQJyi-IJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/reddot-cms-users?hl=en.
