Daily Sync to INT environment?

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Hi guys,

We have a INT and prod environment and it´s hard at the moment to keep track of all the differences.
Is it possible somehow, to clone the PROD environment (topics / categories / settings / … ) to INT regulary and keep the INT individual stuff (hostname / ssl / email / … ) ?

Do I have to do that manually (store the individual stuff somewhere / clone / overwrite the individual stuff with int specifics / … ), or is there some discourse tool which I could use ?

Many thanks in advance and Greetings,

JP

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There is rake site_settings:import

See Restoring forum to a new server - #2 by csmu

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Hey guys,

It´s actually as simple as:

  • Specify all stage-individual settings as hard-coded variables in app.yaml
  • Copy backup from prod to int
  • Restore it
  • Rebuild the app

At least here it works, but here comes the next question: So the instance won´t pester the users, how can I deactivate all settings that could lead to an email to the users?

  • Personal email settings
  • Watched, tracked categories
  • …

At the moment, I intentionally misconfigured the mail server, but someday when I want to test something with mails …

Any ideas?

Thanks and greetings,

WS

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There is a disable emails site setting. I think it’s automatically activated when you restore a backup. For testing, you could enable e-mails for staff only.

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Hey @Moin (that´s a German term for good morning, I like that :slight_smile: )

thanks for your answer. I´m aware of that option, but I´m afraid as soon as I activate it there will be a flood of mails going out.

What did you mean by

How would that be possible without reenabling the whole mail thing and don´t spam the users ?

The only thing I can imagine is to switch off the mail related user specific settings via rake console for every user.

Or

Would any of these

  • Deactivate
  • Stage
  • Suspend
  • Silence

do the trick ?

Cheers and thanks again,

WS

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By choosing to disable emails for non-staff

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Doh, that would be possible, yes :see_no_evil_monkey:

Thanks, I forgot completely, there is that “non-staff” option in that field :frowning:

Have a great day and thanks!

WS

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That option is set automatically when you restore a backup, so you don’t need to do anything extra.

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