From the module description, this sounds very similar to the Demonstration Site module, which is capable of taking snapshots of the running system at any time and reset the site to an arbitrary state. Could you outline what the differences are between the two?

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matt@antinomia commented
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Sure. There are substantial differences between the module. As you stated, the Demo module allows you to take a 'picture' of your Drupal configuration and revert to it at any time. This module is basically a friendly interface to Drupal's multi-site capabilities, allowing you to build 'sandboxes' (for development, testing, etc) at the push of a button.

For example, if you have the module running at mydomain.com and create a 'Droplet' called 'newsite', the module will create a database and space in the sites directory (as /sites/newsite.mydomain.com').

Does that clarify? If so, I'll update the module's README and description.

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matt@antinomia commented

And now I notice you're the author of the demonstration module! :) You know what would be cool is for that module to be able to build install profiles. That's a task-and-a-half, but then you could build Druplets with any of the created profiles. Eh?

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smk-ka commented

Argh, sorry for not responding earlier, your answers must have been trashed before I had a chance to take a look at 'em. :(

For example, if you have the module running at mydomain.com and create a 'Droplet' called 'newsite', the module will create a database and space in the sites directory (as /sites/newsite.mydomain.com').

Now that is nice. Yeah, it would in fact be cool to be able to create a new site with a previously saved Demo snapshot, instead of doing it manually. But Demo doesn't create nor use profiles, only
- a database dump and
- a list of modules to enable.
I wonder if there's still a way to connect both modules? When heavily developing, it happens every now and then that switching isn't enough and I wish I had just "another" site quickly at hand. Hm...

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Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)