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Redeploy an entire site

topherjohnson — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:53:21 GMT

I'm a little confused as to how snapshots work. I'm using the Standalone Deployment engine. Say in snapshot version 3 I have two files A and B, and I deploy it. Then on my file system are A.xml and B.xml. Then I create another file, C, and in version 4 I deploy it so on my file system I have A.x

Re: Redeploy an entire site

mrogers — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:07:07 GMT

It's a known issue and (lowish priority) on my enhancements list.

What you can do is to delete the contents of the metadata dir on the standalone deployment receiver and then it will do a full deploy.

But I'd like to know why you are fiddling around with the deployed content. I've had several email conversations about "blended" deployments and indeed made several changes to support them. What's your use-case? Why are you deleting a.xml and b.xml?

Re: Redeploy an entire site

topherjohnson — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:18:38 GMT

It's on a demo project, more of a curiosity than a dire requirement.

Good to know though, thanks for the clarification / explanation.

Re: Redeploy an entire site

mrogers — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:34:14 GMT

O.K. thanks for your response.

So at the moment the only known use-case where re-deploy is needed is where an administrator or other program damages the content after its been deployed. And for disaster recovery, there is the work-around above.

I agree it needs to implemented at some point. It's just not high priority.