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kcking
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I’d like to make some major changes to an existing site without bringing it down. If I create a staging site on a test domain/server, how do I copy the changes back to the live site? Never done this before, not sure if a plugin like backupbuddy might be able to help with this?
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Hey kcking.
I know some projects which make all their changes in an SVN and then update from there.
Have you taken a look at: Bash script to mirror WordPress MU installation into a sandbox:
http://pp19dd.com/2011/01/bash-script-to-mirror-wordpress-mu-installation-into-a-sandbox/
Not for the faint hearted, backups galore perhaps needed. As the author Warns!:
WARNING: read over this script before you run. Seriously. Did you notice there are rm -rf statements in it?
Your probably not going to want to take your DB from a staging install back to your live install though.
Hope this helps.
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