Restore operation on existing site - Best Practise | Old Forum | Forum Archive

Hi,

Sorry for a perhaps obvious and naive newbie question but anyhow...

I use JoomlaCloner + a cron job scheduler to do daily backups and everything works just great.

Sometimes I take a backup and restore it in an empty wamp directory and an empty database on my local machine. I do this so that I can test patches, new modules etc. before I apply them on the live site. This also always run perfectly good.

Now suppose that I do a lot of work on my local installation and then create a backup that I want to restore to my live site i.e. a site wich already has a "installation structure" and an existing database (I don't know if this is called a restore- or a clone operation).

What is best practises when restoring a backup on an existing, functioning site?

I have done a couple of tests of this locally but I, of course, always get a lot of db "duplicate key" warnings messages. Is this normal i.e. can I just, as I always do, use a manual restore procedure even on a already functioning site?

Thanks in advance!