[support] Backing up and migrating a drupal site

[Gregg Marshall]

One thing I have noticed moving back and forth is I usually have to go into
the file system option on site configuration and update where my files are.
My Acquia installation has a slightly different path than the "standard"
Drupal install on my server.

Also in anticipation of moving from a temporary domain name to the final
domain name I've been doing some scans on the MySQL dump inside the
Backup-Migrate zip file.  It appears that some modules can store full paths
(which in my case would be the temporary domain name).

Gregg

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From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On
Behalf Of Michelle Ziegmann
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 6:53 AM
To: support at drupal.org
Subject: Re: [support] Backing up and migrating a drupal site

Also, when you restore using Backup-Migrate, make sure all of the files 
on the server you're migrating to are EXACTLY the same as the one you 
backed up from. I've found something as little as a different version of 
a module between sites will blow things up.

You definitely need 2 processes - Backup-Migrate takes care of your 
database, but also need to migrate all files.

Michelle

On 10/20/2010 7:36 PM, Maurice Mengel wrote:
> I think you are  on the right track. I use backup and migrate to get
> the db, then I get the files from the server and copy all to my home
> server. I bet the WSOD is due to something trivial like php memory
> settings or some rights issues (file system, or db) or the like.
> Anyways, it will pay off if you figure that out now! Did you search
> d.o for this problem?
>
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:29 PM, Roger<arelem at bigpond.com>  wrote:
>> I have a development site on a remote server.
>> I've installed the Backup_Migrate module and found that it only copies
>> the Drupal code not the database, images, etc.
>>
>> I do not want to continue developing on the remoter server site as the
>> save times can frequently be 1 minute or so even after small changes to
>> css code. So trialing css code changes can take a long time over all.
>>
>> I tried cPanel on the server but the resultant mysql.tar.gz seems to
>> produce only the same as the backup_migrate module produces.
>>
>> When I used the b_m module to restore to my home pc it killed my Drupal
>> installation, WSOD.
>>
>> When I have all the drupal site and mysql database I can develop at
>> home, fix issues then intend to migrate it back to the server but after
>> the current experience am nervous.
>>
>> I can find nothing to help understand the process or what I should or
>> should not be doing in migrating a drupal system.
>> Can someone please advise me.
>> Thanks
>> Roger
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