Add-on sugestion – mirror/restore online website into a localhost DEV

Hi Jorge,

Thanks for the suggestion. This is a request I’ve heard before… today I’ve done about 75% of the ground-work to make it possible. Watch this space – it should be done within a week!

Best wishes,
David

Next week, God-willing, we will have an add-on to back up all files in your WordPress installation (including non-WordPress stuff that you are sharing the directory with) in the shop.

Then we just need to add some new stuff to allow further directories to be added to. But the appearance of this add-on is a sign that the underlying infrastructure is all there and we’re confident in it.

David

Hi David this fantastic,

Will it then be possible to sync to localhost?

There are a few other pieces of the jigsaw yet… but more is done than not done.

Hi Jorge,

The “Migrator” add-on is now complete. The way it works is:

* You install it on the “new” / “receiving” end (i.e. the place you are copying the site to).

* You drag-and-drop your backup file(s) (i.e. plugins, themes, database) into UpdraftPlus’s settings screen on the receiving end.

* You “restore” using that backup. There’s a check-box “Search and replace site location in the database” to check.

When UpdraftPlus then runs, then whilst restoring the database it will perform the search + replace. It uses internally the tried-and-tested code from searchreplacedb2.php – actually with one bug-fix for a case that fails on that (I’ll send him the patch soon!).

Full walk-through here:
https://updraftplus.com/faqs/how-do-i-migrate-to-a-new-site-location/

Not yet on sale – if I release new versions too often, then people complain about too many updates. This is scheduled to be released in about 10 days. However, I can privately email a copy to anyone who has purchased the unlimited package of UpdraftPlus Premium.

You may have ideas on how to improve it, and I’ll be interested in those too.

Hi David,

Fantastic news, i’ll be testing this and giving feedback sometime soon, after i purchase it. I plan doing that in the first days of may!
Thanks for investing your time in this… i hope others find it useful and that it can boost up the sales.

Best regards,
Jorge

Hello David,

I wondered if Migrator allows restore to localhost yet (as implied earlier in this thread “There are a few other pieces of the jigsaw yet… but more is done than not done.”) I checked out the documents at https://updraftplus.com/faqs/how-do-i-migrate-to-a-new-site-location/ and https://updraftplus.com/shop/migrator/ and can’t see a mention of it. Mostly they are pretty specific about cloning to a “web address/URL”

FWIW I have things mostly working using UpdraftPlus backups to establish my local dev instance on XAMPP, I just can’t figure out how to go the other way (from dev to production).

Thanks for a useful plugin!

-lane

Hi,

Thanks for asking…

Migrator allows you to restore to anywhere, in either direction, and is frequently used for what you’re looking for. A localhost address still counts technically as a “web address/URL” – I wasn’t referring there only to those that live on the Internet as opposed to a local machine – that distinction isn’t a significant one at the level that the Migrator operates. It can do what you’re looking for.

David

Thanks for the speedy response. I purchased Migrator and after a little digging to figure out how to allow plugins to install on my local machine it worked beautifully. I did notice one little oddness perhaps you can explain. The files in the backup set all have the date 2013-12-29-0146. The display in the “Drop backup files here” box shows the file names with the correct date/time. Once converted, the backup row shows a different date/time 2013-12-28 17:46. (I believe this is eight hours earlier?)

I posted a screen shot here https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx-EeFHzzES6Wk5tNFBnZ1I1Rzg/edit?usp=sharing

Any thoughts?

Hi thinknow,

The filename is using GMT; that gets converted to the timezone set in the WordPress installation upon importing. It doesn’t affect anything in the operation, though.

David