Synchronizing an authoring server with a production server
If you create your authoring server after creating a production server, you must synchronize your production and authoring server to ensure that the authoring server accurately reflects your production server. You should also synchronize your authoring server and production server if at any point your production-ready data on the authoring server does not accurately reflect your production server. This can be caused by changes made directly on the production server, either one large change or a series of smaller, incremental changes that cause the information about the authoring server and production server to no longer be synchronized.
Procedure
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Use the stagingcopy utility to
copy all data from the production server database to the production-ready database on the authoring
server.
For more information, review Staging server limitations and Troubleshooting: Staging server.
- Use the fileloader utility to load any managed files from the production server file system to the production-ready database on the authoring server.
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Deploy the JSP, HTML, and image files for your store from the production server to the
authoring server:
- Stop and restart the authoring server instance.