On Jul 6, 2011, at 1:36 PM, Nils Breunese wrote:
> > Hello all, > > I'm currently working on our Magnolia backup strategy using the Magnolia > Backup module [0]. We would like to be able to restore a dump from one DTAP > environment [1] to another, mainly from the production environment to the > acceptance test environment. (We might also want to restore to a development > environment for instance to debug a problem with a particular set of > content.) We'll want to do this every 1-2 weeks to keep the content in our > acceptance test environment current. > > The restore procedure [2] looks fairly complicated and involves quite a > number of manual steps. I'll look at automating this as much as possible for > our setup, but I'm wondering what steps need to be carried out to be able to > restore a dump from a production environment to another environment. We have > magnolia.properties files outside of the web application directory, but apart > from that I guess maybe some information in repoConf.zip might also have to > be changed when restoring to a different environment? yes, for example db connection string unless you are using jndi needs to be changed for all workspaces. Changing DB conf should be easy to automate as the replacement string would be always the same. > If someone has done restores to different environments before or if you know > about the way these dumps work, I'd like to hear your experiences. Is this > even possible at all? Definitively possible. I've used backup module to migrate content incl. versions between different databases and between different PMs about 3 times, but that was quite some time back just after backup module was released. I can't give you any guides apart from what you already found, but if you run into specific issues let me know and I'll try to remember how to solve them. > > Nils. > > [0] http://documentation.magnolia-cms.com/modules/backup.html > [1] > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development,_testing,_acceptance_and_production > [2] http://documentation.magnolia-cms.com/modules/backup.html#Restoringabackup > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > VPRO www.vpro.nl > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > For list details see > http://www.magnolia-cms.com/community/mailing-lists.html > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[email protected]> > ---------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- For list details see http://www.magnolia-cms.com/community/mailing-lists.html To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[email protected]> ----------------------------------------------------------------
