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• Log on to the production Drupal site and configure the 'Site under maintenance' block
  • Under 'Page specific visibility settings' select 'Show on every page except the listed pages.'
• Make a backup of the production site to the Manual Backups Directory (using Backup and Migrate module)
  • Drupal 6: http://$productiondomain/admin/content/backup_migrate/export
  • Drupal 7: http://$productiondomain/admin/config/system/backup_migrate
• Log on to the test Drupal site
• Put the test site into maintenance mode
  • Drupal 6: http://$testdomain/admin/settings/site-maintenance
  • Drupal 7: http://$testdomain/admin/config/development/maintenance

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  go to victoria02 and cd /libweb/sites/\[your site name\]/make

• Determine what machine the production site is on
  • victoria03 - www.library.cornell.edu, beta.library.cornell.edu

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      sudo update_test_from_victoria03.sh \[your production site domain\] \[your test site domain\]

  • victoria02 - all the others

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      sudo update_test_from_production.sh \[your production site domain\] \[your test site domain\]

  • the script will ask you if you completed each of the steps above and give you all the real paths to the pages you need to use
  • the script moves the site with rsync
• Log on to the test Drupal site
• Restore the latest backup
  • Drupal 6: http://$testdomain/admin/content/backup_migrate/destination/list/files/manual
  • Drupal 7: http://$testdomain/admin/config/system/backup_migrate/destination/list/files/manual
  • click 'restore' next to the latest version of the file (hint: sort by file name!)
• take the test site out of maintenance mode

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• Log on to the test Drupal site
• Make a backup of the test site to the Manual Backups Directory (using Backup and Migrate module)
• Log on to the production Drupal site
• Put the production site into maintenance mode
• Determine which machine the production site is on
  • victoria03 - www.library.cornell.edu, beta.library.cornell.edu

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      ssh to the production machine victoria03 and cd /libweb/sites/\[your site name\]/make 

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      sudo update_victoria03_from_test.sh \[your test domain\] \[your production domain\]

• • victoria01 - all the others

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      ssh to the production machine

  go to

  • • victoria01 and cd /libweb/sites/\[your site name\]/make 

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      sudo update_production_from_test.sh \[your test domain\] \[your production domain\]

• the script will ask you if you've done each step and give you all the proper paths
• restore the latest backup
• configure the 'site under maintenance' block
  • Under 'Page specific visibility settings' select 'Show on only the listed pages'