Hi, I run a fairly new Drupal 7 site. For development I have a local site on my laptop (its much faster) --- i.e., any major changes to the site will first occur on the local site.
Now the question:
How do I best update "the stuff" that might have happened on BOTH the live site AND the local site (using backup and restore)?
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Scenario 1 (the preferred):
Update only the new changes done on the local site without touching the content, comments, user info etc. on the live site. I.e., local site-> live site
This would be SWEET, but...
HOW DO I DO THIS?
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Scenario 2 (acceptable):
i) Update user info from the live site to the local site so that I don't miss any new members, and then do a complete restore: local->live site
ii) Perhaps also updating NEW content and comments (this would be very nice if its possible).
HOW DO I DO THIS?
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Scenario 3 (do I really have to this...):
Stay up late when the chance of having a user logged in minimal and then turn site offline. Do a live site->local site restore. Do any changes locally and then do local site-> live site restore.