Syncing Production to Staging

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In a discussion titled “Syncing Production to Staging,” users explore methods to sync data from a production Discourse site to a staging environment, which has different settings including URL, Auth0, and disabled email. csmu proposes exporting settings via console, backing up the production database to S3, restoring it to staging, and re-importing settings. david supports this and references built-in rake tasks — rake site_settings:export and rake site_settings:import — available in Discourse’s GitHub repo. pfaffman adds a Ruby app for uploading settings and notes that Auth0 config may simply require adding the staging site to Auth0’s allowed list; also clarifies that email doesn’t need manual disabling if not configured. Ravi_Teja_Varma reports failure with the rake task, citing “Don’t know how to build task ‘site_settings:export’”. erikds, replying belatedly, advises that those rake tasks must first be set up in the environment before they can be invoked via rake. The thread collectively offers practical, code-backed solutions for safely syncing production data while preserving staging-specific configurations.

1

Given we have different settings on a staging site, mainly

  1. Url is different
  2. Auth0 settings are different and
  3. Email is disabled
    what would be a good way to get the latest data from a production discourse site into a staging site.

I’m thinking.

  1. Export settings via console.
  2. backup production database to s3
  3. restore staging from s3
  4. restore settings via console.
2

That sounds like a good approach. We have a couple of rake tasks to help with exporting/importing site settings:

rake site_settings:export

and

rake site_settings:import
3

I’ve also got a ruby app that will upload settings
https://github.com/pfaffman/discourse-settings-uploader

The auth0 config might be as simple as allowing the new site to the auth0 config.

If you don’t configure email, it doesn’t matter if you disable it.

4

This has been failing for me… it says Don't know how to build task 'site_settings:export'

5

I realize this is very late but for future reference, you need to set up the rake tasks linked in the post you are replying to before they will be available via rake.