Synchronizing content between several Umbraco instances
I hope I'm targeting right topic
for my question.
I have problem in finding the best solution for synchronizing
content between several Umbraco (Verison: 4.7.2) instances. So the situation
is: I have three environments (dev, pre-production, production) with their own
databases and Umbraco installed on them. Currently if I updating content on my
dev instance I need to repeat this procedure on other two. Content can be updated on all of these environments.
So I need to have some tool which will synchronize content on all others environments,
immediately after it was updated.
I found couple of out-of-box solutions such as Umbraco
Courier and uSync.
I have problems with both of them. The first one is commercial;
the second is working only with Umbraco version 4.10.x. I can’t pay for this,
and at the same time it’s rather hard for me to upgrade Umbraco on all of these
environments. Currently I need to upgrade only content.
I’m kind of wary of developing something which will work
directly with databases, but that’s the only solution I can see now.
Synchronizing content between several Umbraco instances
I hope I'm targeting right topic for my question.
I have problem in finding the best solution for synchronizing content between several Umbraco (Verison: 4.7.2) instances. So the situation is: I have three environments (dev, pre-production, production) with their own databases and Umbraco installed on them. Currently if I updating content on my dev instance I need to repeat this procedure on other two. Content can be updated on all of these environments. So I need to have some tool which will synchronize content on all others environments, immediately after it was updated.
I found couple of out-of-box solutions such as Umbraco Courier and uSync.
I have problems with both of them. The first one is commercial; the second is working only with Umbraco version 4.10.x. I can’t pay for this, and at the same time it’s rather hard for me to upgrade Umbraco on all of these environments. Currently I need to upgrade only content.
I’m kind of wary of developing something which will work directly with databases, but that’s the only solution I can see now.
So can you please advise me something on this?
Have you tried uSync Content Edition? I've not tried it myself but it sounds pretty cool.
Thanks for reply,
uSync Content Edition requires uSync by itself. uSync is compatible with Umbraco v4.10.x so I suppose it won’t work on my 4.7.2.
yeah - sorry uSync.ContentEdition only works from v6 because the api was easier - but you could follow the theory on v4.7 umbraco installs.
uSync walks the content tree, and writes a xml file for each node, then it reads them in the other end, and created content nodes for each file. and it does some mapping of IDs (best look at the source code - https://github.com/KevinJump/jumoo.usync/tree/master/jumoo.usync.content)
but you will spend way more time solving this problem with code than the cost of courier.
Also check out http://our.umbraco.org/projects/backoffice-extensions/umirror by Antoine Giraud, afaiu its a mature and well tested package (used internally before they released it). (+ see the uHangout video where Warren Buckley talks to Antoine about uMirror http://www.lecoati.com/en/leblog/2013/11/umirror-in-uhangout/).
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