By AngelicLight on

Hi, there,

I'm sure it's just my newness to Drupal that would prompt this question, but what do you do once you're live and you update your development/test site and you want to migrate those changes to your live site.

Is it best just to drop the database and import it as new, along with any theme changes?

How do you usually do it?

Thanks so much, and have a good day,

- (A/L)

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ezraw commented

If you have a really simple site or just don't have changes on production that would get overwritten, then yes dropping and importing would be the easiest.

However if you have an active live site where data is constantly changing you can't do that. A few approaches you might use to address this problem:

1. Make notes and manually migrate your changes.
2. Put your configuration changes in code or use Features (http://drupal.org/project/features) module to export them to code and then reimport them.
3. Use the Deploy module (http://drupal.org/project/deploy).

There are a bunch of posts about this already, just look around and you should find them. Here is one that you might find helpful.
http://groups.drupal.org/node/56228

Ezra Wolfe
DLC Solutions
EthosCE

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AngelicLight commented

Thanks, Ezra, that's great!