Hi there!

For the site I am currently working on we are using a complete DTAP street (dev/test/acceptance/production). We are using a separate Umbraco installation for each of these stages.

This means that whenever we add new keys and content on Umbraco development we have to push these changes over three more servers. This has been problematic for us, especially with large changes and I am trying to find a way to do this in an efficient and reliable way.

I have tried migrating new content using the package feature, but I am under the impression that this doesn't work with cross server content migration? I can import the package on the other side, it is placed in the root of the Umbraco tree, but I'm unable to move the imported package to the desired location in the tree. Umbraco says it can't move the new content, because "The current node is not allowed under the chosen node because of its type ".

I have looked under the "structure" tab to see if the content types in the new package are allowed to reside under the node I am trying to move the content under and they are! So why won't Umbraco move the new package to the desired location? I am under the impression the database IDs of the content types don't match accross different servers and that this is causing trouble. I have tried opening the package before importing it and replacing all content type IDs with IDs that match the content type IDs of the Umbraco installation I am migrating the new content too, but still to no avail.

Right now, we are migrating content by copying the entire Umbraco database from one server to another. 

My questions are

#1 Am I right that using packages for cross server content migration is not a good idea? And for what reason? Content type IDs?

#2 What are your experiences with migrating content in a DTAP environment? Are you just migrating the entire database, are you using packages, etc?

Thanks! :)