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I am busy reworking a reasonably large website that is already in Craft. The production site is updated with new content several times a day. My current work is an interface redesign. I have a local machine environment, and then a dev environment on the same server set up at the ISP alongside the live production one. The dev will function more as a test server - I can refresh from the production server a few times to test my update process.

My rework on the local dev environments starts with an exact site copy, and will involve mostly template changes. However I suspect I might need to do some database tweaks. In the meantime the live site will undergo a number of content changes.

I am wondering how best to deploy those database tweaks to the live dev and then production servers. My current strategy is to write down what changes I made in local dev and then manually make them on the main dev or live server. These seems a bit dumb unless it is just one or two. I can't copy the whole database because then I would overwrite content changes and I can't put a hold on content changes because my work is likely to take a week or three.

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What you need to do is develop some kind of workflow; the workflow that I use is described in the Database & Asset Syncing Between Environments in Craft CMS

But there are other equally valid ways to do it as well. It's really a combination of some tooling, and then just a workflow methodology that you're going to use to keep things in sync.

Writing things down and trying to then re-apply the changes is problematic, because it human error often rears its ugly head when you try to do things that way.

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  • Thanks Andrew, that is very useful. I have a bit of homework and catching up to do with respect to processes. My half baked systems are workable (although perhaps not ideal) for small sites, but I need to up my game for the bigger ones :). Apr 8, 2018 at 1:51

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