Migrating data between environments

[jameswoodley]

Does anyone have any best practice on how to migrate data between environments? We currently have the typical dev -> staging -> prod set up and we are finding issues in prod because the data is different.

I can of course just blanket overwrite the dev/staging environment databases, but then we lost valuable test data as well. Is there a process in Orchard to copy certain content to other Orchard instances?

[hishamco]

Try to use Deployment features for import / export

[devlife]

To build on @hishamco's answer, I create a deployment plan for each set of related changes. Then execute the deployment plan to push the changes to each environment.