Hi,
I commonly use Backup an Migrate to update new site material from a dev server to a production site, but I've had clients changing content items(Custom content type nodes; there may be 10-50 of these to save) on the production site that tehy don't want to have to re-enter. Maybe its already there, but I can't see a way to use Backup & Migrate to back up specific content nodes which I can later "restore" back to the production server.
I've looked at some of the documentation, & I'm getting the feeling that the only way to really do this is to use phpMyAdmin on the DB. While it may very well work, I can't help but feel that I'm missing some feature in B&M that would let me do that.
Conceptually what I am looking for is the equivalent of being able to go to 'Find Content' (admin/content), selectingthe nodes I want to 'backup', & then have a something like an Update Option 'Backup Selected Content' (and some analog to Restore those particular items into the Production DB.
Comments on how anyone else has been doing this?
TIA, Jeff

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ronan commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

What you're looking to do isn't supported by B&M and isn't part of it's mission. The goal of this module is to preserve your database in one piece, making it suitable for backup or to pull from prod to stage/dev for testing and development. There would be no practical way for B&M to isolate a single node from your db given how many tables and how many records could be affected by that single node. B&M would have to be familiar with the data structure of every contrib module you have installed and be tested against an infinite number of configurations.

Content staging is a whole different problem to solve, and you may want to look into some of the existing solutions such as Deploy, Migrate, Feeds, Content Staging. etc.

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fejn commented

OK - I'll look into the other modules you mentioned. I posted this in the B & M issue queue because it is the tool I use most often to Backup & Restore content & entire sites; with recent requests, I've noticed I might want a more fine-grained approach in a few cases. B & M still covers most of my needs quite well.

Thanks a lot,