# Ability to "sync" post content between instances without overwriting settings/users **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature\ **Created:** [5 Janeiro , 2015 10:49 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-sync-post-content-between-instances-without-overwriting-settings-users/23677 "2015-01-05T10:49:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![kalleth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/kalleth/32/102787_2.png) [@kalleth](https://meta.discourse.org/u/kalleth)\ **Post date:** [5 Janeiro , 2015 10:49 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-sync-post-content-between-instances-without-overwriting-settings-users/23677/1 "2015-01-05T10:49:26Z")
Hi there, Not sure this is `support` although it could be – here’s my use case: For my clients’ discourse installation I have two environments; staging and production. I have a synchronisation script for the website which syncs data from production to staging each night to keep staging as close to production as possible. I would like to do the same for discourse, but as the forums are accessible from different hostnames with different admin settings I would only like to sync the post information (and users which aren’t already present in the database, **but anonymising their user account** (i.e. overwriting email/real name/etc fields on the sync so there’s no PII in the staging database – i don’t want to accidentally email real people from staging!) Is this possible right now? The import/export looks to be a bit full featured for me – i.e. it’ll nuke and overwrite everything. Am I going to have to write a rake task on each and my own importer layer? ☹ --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-sync-post-content-between-instances-without-overwriting-settings-users/23677)._