download copy of current TN D6 website

[annesley]

hi, am trying to get a copy of the current TN.org D6 database and filesystem down to my laptop to develop against. i had pulled from GIT, backed up from Backup&Migrate and got everything working but there are things missing.

so i want to do a file copy. i started a tar operation but the tar size went over 1.3GB and i stopped it because it shouldn't be that big. as always BOA has restricted use of the "du" command so i can't really tell why the tar was so big. and i can't "df" to see if it's a problem

should i let it continue? why is it so big?

[annesley]

i've logged back out again and in as me and used some sudo
df -h reports:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs 79G 41G 35G 55% /
udev 10M 0 10M 0% /dev
tmpfs 818M 136K 818M 1% /run
/dev/xvda2 79G 41G 35G 55% /
tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
tmpfs 1.6G 0 1.6G 0% /run/shm

du -sh transition-network-d6-32-s002-booker
3.1G transition-network-d6-32-s002-booker

so it should have enough space so i'll go ahead and try again.

[paul]

Instead of downloading the entire files directory you can configure you local web server to request that individual files are pulled from the stage server and then cached locally for future requests.

[paul]

This should help ..

​https://gist.github.com/paulbooker/5f0e7b06edbd6b889a31

[annesley]

nice!

it was modules and code that was missing though. however, i have used some --exclude=files on the tar command now and have a filecopy.

actually, it might be just the Location Module that is missing because i think i had to delete it to get the website working initially.

i'll figure it out. thanks for the image re-direction stuff though. very nice.

[ed]

moving to maintenance as this is a maintenance task