wiki:Drupal HowTo Copy site to test server

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Drupal HowTo Copy site to test server

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Process

  1. Run the ​Full backup script to produce a file called something like sitebackup-YYYY-MM-DD.tgz
  2. scp the tar file to the new server
  3. tar -zxvf sitebackup-YYYY-MM-DD.tgz, which will produce 2 files called dbcontent.sql and filecontent.tar
  4. Create a directory for the web folder mkdir /local/www/scad
  5. Log into MySql
  6. Create the database using CREATE DATABASE {databasename} CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;

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