Overview of Site Archiving and Deployment

The Archive and Deploy tools supplied with ColdFusion Server 5 Enterprise Edition enable you to easily archive and deploy web site configuration information, files and/or applications. Use these features to deploy your web site applications to another location or to back up your files quickly and easily.  Additionally, you can use these features to securely deploy and receive any ColdFusion archive file electronically.

Steps Required for Archiving and Deploying Site Information

 

Step1:  Create the Archive Definition. Creating the archive definition involves identifying the type of information you want to archive about a site.  You can archive almost anything about the site, such as directories, files, CFX tags, directory mappings, data sources, verity collections, automated tasks, server settings, and variables. Each archive definition you create is assigned a name. You use this name each time you need to modify or archive its content.  
 

Step2:  Build Archive.  Building an archive involves selecting the name of the archive definition you want to archive and specifying a location to which you want to store the archive (.car file).
 

Step3:  Deploy the Archive. Deploying an archive involves specifying the location of the archive file name (.car file), the retrieval method (Local, HTTP, FTP), and the location to which you want to restore the archive file (.car). Alternatively, you can securely deploy your archive file to other locations, for more information see Archive Security.
 

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