Synchronise a production environment with a staging one

[Bertrand Bouillon]

Hello,

We are using a confluence server platform 6.13.5 and we want to upgrade to 7.4.0

We need to synchronise a production environment with a staging environment for upgrade.

We want to make that automatically with scripts or tools.

The matter is to preserve server ID and licenses (confluence and plugins) and others datas.

All documents i read described manual process.

have you ever had that kind of need and found a solution ?

Thank you

Regards

[Dave Theodore [Coyote Creek Consulting] · Accepted solution]

Just make a backup of your production database and load that in to the staging DB instance. All the license information is contained in the database.

[Bertrand Bouillon]

Thank you Dave for your response.

I know this process but i would keep the plugins licenses in my stage environment.

The backup and restore from production environment replace plugins licenses and I have to retype them every time.

my goal is to find a way to do this synchronization automatically without having to do a manual task. some other parameters such as links between applications or disabling of mails would be an advantage.

Regards

Bertrand

[Bertrand Bouillon]

I forgot to mention that we have developer licenses on our staging environment.

[0xF0F]

I used to do that with a little perl script, which just reads the database dump and replaces the production licenses with developer licenses. 

As far as I can see this stoped working since a while. Especially the Jira and Confluence keys cannot be found in the dump anymore, but some of the plugin licenses neither. Would be happy to get a hint there, is there another way of doing it automatically(REST?)?
It would be very time consuming to enter them whenever I have to update the content of our staging/testing servers.
Anybody with an idea?
:wq