By ghmercado on

my site is cached up with varnish, so i find it hard to work on it.

I need to do things like create and edit content types, so constantly re-freshing and purging cache is a hassle.

I've tried running a copy on localhost but my mysqldumps are 200mb.+ and it takes time to upload/dload them. I tried running a copy on another live server but that didn't work out due to cache issues, missing tables, a variety of things.

I need a guide on working on a local copy and updating the live one on an incremental, per db table basis. Is that possible?

how do the guys on busy, large sites do it?

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ghmercado commented

decided to use the features module, to remotely make new content types on my local machine then transfer the resulting module to my active site.

It works, but to be honest, I like doing it the old - fashioned way, which is to make changes to a live demo replica of my site, after which I transfer the resulting db onto the live one, sans downtime.

just wanna figure out how to do it in a more fluid manner, or follow a 'best practices' step by step process.