Earnie Boyd / 2007/08/24 / 08:25 AM wrote:
For an upgrade to production it is advisable to put the site off line for a few minutes.
Ha-ha. I don't see how this can be done in a few minutes. Thank you for your response, however. You are very helpful and I always save your comments.
I would suggest a network time protocol daemon for both hosts.
I am sorry, but I don't understand what you are suggesting.
For the database you may wish to look at the importexportapi module or maybe the excellent dba module.
I don't have database backup issue. Copying database between the live and the staging within the live server is pretty easy. I do this all the time.
For the file system you might look at unix standards such as rsync.
I thought rsync also look at the time stamp, no? I have got ChronoSync which is a pretty good application, but turns useless when time stamp is messed up.
It's tough to realize that you've stabbed your own self.
The problems is I don't know how I stabbed myself.
Have you considered using tar?
Do you mean uploading tar file? Do I not loose the "Site-Offline" page as soon as I expand the directory to overwrite the live directory until I manually rewrite the settings.php?
By the way, there is one inc file I modified but I can't remember which one. Without proper time stamp, this is bad. I was wondering if anyone knows a good def GUI app runs on OSX10.4. I actually don't know a proper keyword to google this.