[development] Any Drupal Tools for Automating Staging Site Creation?

[Metzler, David]

I've taken a different approach, as said, not up to drupal distro
standards, but I create and configure skel databases, and use scripts to
copy sites, and run sql queries, including modifying some site
variables. Adding a few scripted svn update commands to some of these
scripts might accomplish what you're looking for or might not.  The
code's not pretty, so use at your own risk. 

http://www2.evergreen.edu/dave/node/72

They only work on linux environments. 

Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: development-bounces at drupal.org
[mailto:development-bounces at drupal.org] On Behalf Of Mike Cantelon
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 1:43 PM
To: development at drupal.org
Subject: [development] Any Drupal Tools for Automating Staging Site
Creation?

Hi all,

Has anyone created any tools for automating site setup?

Basically what I'm doing now each night via a script is:
1) Cloning my production site
2) Replacing certain directories with versions checked out from
Subversion
3) Running a series of Linux commands and SQL queries to set up modules 
that are in development but have not been deployed to production

Whenever I start development on a new module I have to add to my 
mirroring script to automate Drupal setup. I can write some PHP 
functions to encapsulate this, but maybe something already exists?

Cheers,
Mike