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#22848 Replacement for site transfer wizard

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Latest post by nicholas on Wednesday, 24 June 2015 01:46 CDT

Tuesday, 23 June 2015 22:48 CDT

user75756
Hi Guys

I've just updated my subscription and noticed the "Site Transfer Wizard" is no longer supported.

I used to use the function a lot to transfer my live site on my VDS to a separate domain for testing new features. In fact, that's the main reason I bought the subscription, as I already have separate nightly off-site backups.

Now that it's gone, what is the best way to replicate the function? I had a look in the docs but couldn't see a straightforward way to do this.

Could you please point me in the right direction?

Many thanks.

Regards

Nick

Wednesday, 24 June 2015 01:46 CDT

nicholas
Hello Nick,

The answer can be found in our release notes under "Alternatives to obsolete features removed in 4.2.0". Let me paste this in for you:

Site Transfer Wizard. The wizard didn't make site transfers possible, it only helped you set up the backup profile. You can still use the DirectFTP and DirectSFTP archiver engine to the same effect – after all, that's the only thing the wizard did for you, enable these archiver engines. However we recommend using regular JPA or ZIP backup archives with the Upload to FTP and Upload to SFTP post-processing engines along with the Upload Kickstart option. This new method is much more stable and far less likely to fail midway through the site transfer.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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