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I have been trying to import an existing site so I can work on it within quickstart and for several reasons I keep having problems. I was thinking it might be helpful for people in general if there was some documentation or a screencast on how to take their existing site and work with it on quickstart.
I would do this if I could get my site working but I have not been able to. I have had issues copying site files from my Mac OS X Lion host, which might be a ext4 file system issue? I have also had problems importing the database using drush and phpMyAdmin.
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Comment #1
MichaelCole CreditAttribution: MichaelCole commentedHi chrowe,
Drush 5 may be able to backup and restore a site. If not that, then manually :-)
Cheers,
Mike
Comment #2
l_o_l CreditAttribution: l_o_l commentedTo bring a website from its remote original server to quickstart for developing some extra module.
After some experimenting this is what works for me with drush 5.8 on both the remote and the local (quickstart) machines: