Re: Portal development vs. production

"Dale DeRemer" <dderemer_at_agmc.org> wrote in news:adl3fc$k9p$1_at_malgudi.oar.net:
> We are going live with our portal/portlets/content areas, etc. We
> have a development instance, and a production instance. We have
> had a great deal of difficulty exporting and importing
> objects/tables from the development instance to production. Both
> production and development are 9.0.1 databases. Everything is the
> same, but it's a real headache. One time during an import, we had
> a bunch of packages get corrupted. This is just out for debate and
> input. How are other people doing this? We can't be the only ones.
> I'm trying to get the easiest most efficient way to move pages
> from development to production. Thanks for any input.

A few hints:
- It goes the best in the latest version. In your case please see if your Portal version is 3.0.9.8.3 (Administer, Global settings, bottom of page). Many issues are solved in this patchset. You will have to apply it to both instances, and re-do your export job after the patch is applied.
- It is possible to copy over the complete database (with all datafiles).
- There is documentation on http://portalcenter.oracle.com that describes how to copy an entire Portal instance using export/import.

Portal 9.0.2 will have a 'wizard' doing stuff for you.

Good luck,

Sander Received on Wed Jun 05 2002 - 15:50:18 CDT