# Daily Sync to INT environment?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/daily-sync-to-int-environment/371777
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [June 26, 2025, 7:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/daily-sync-to-int-environment/371777 "2025-06-26T07:49:59Z")
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### Author:  [@Wurzelseppi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Wurzelseppi)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2025, 7:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/daily-sync-to-int-environment/371777/1 "2025-06-26T07:49:59Z")
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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### Author:  [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2025, 8:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/daily-sync-to-int-environment/371777/2 "2025-06-26T08:41:41Z")
There is `rake site_settings:import`
See [Restoring forum to a new server - #2 by csmu](https://meta.discourse.org/t/restoring-forum-to-a-new-server/127357/2)
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### Author:  [@Wurzelseppi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Wurzelseppi)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2025, 1:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/daily-sync-to-int-environment/371777/3 "2025-07-01T13:45:40Z")
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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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2025, 1:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/daily-sync-to-int-environment/371777/4 "2025-07-01T13:49:30Z")
> [@Wurzelseppi](#):
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> So the instance won’t pester the users, how can I deactivate all settings that could lead to an email to the users?
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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### Author:  [@Wurzelseppi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Wurzelseppi)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2025, 6:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/daily-sync-to-int-environment/371777/5 "2025-07-02T06:48:54Z")
Hey @Moin (that´s a German term for good morning, I like that 🙂 )
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
> [@Moin](#):
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> you could enable e-mails for staff only.
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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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2025, 7:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/daily-sync-to-int-environment/371777/6 "2025-07-02T07:00:17Z")
> [@Wurzelseppi](#):
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> How would that be possible without reenabling the whole mail thing and don´t spam the users ?
By choosing to `disable emails` for `non-staff`
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### Author:  [@Wurzelseppi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Wurzelseppi)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2025, 7:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/daily-sync-to-int-environment/371777/7 "2025-07-02T07:10:48Z")
> [@Moin](#):
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> By choosing to `disable emails` for `non-staff`
Doh, that would be possible, yes 🙈
Thanks, I forgot completely, there is that “non-staff” option in that field ☹
Have a great day and thanks!
WS
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### Author:  [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2025, 8:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/daily-sync-to-int-environment/371777/8 "2025-07-02T08:16:54Z")
That option is [set automatically when you restore a backup](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/e91024a22174514d7eda6b692c326bca73bbcb53/lib/backup_restore/restorer.rb#L134), so you don’t need to do anything extra.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2025, 8:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/daily-sync-to-int-environment/371777/9 "2025-08-01T08:17:00Z")
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