Use latest daily backup as build

OttoFMS
1

Hey guys. Love the product I’ve told you that before.

Is it possible to be able to use the latest daily backup as your build in place of a just in time build?

In an active iterating UAT process, you often want “fresh-ish” data in there. The migration schedule may be every day and it would be helpful to not have to create a build, just point to the latest file from a specific backup schedule.

I know I can schedule a build but in the interest of server space it would be nice to just say “use latest daily backup”.

No worries if not.

Keep up the good work!
Nat

2

Hey Nat,

There is no functionality to create a build from a backup. You could use a scheduled build in place of a backup (and use the build publishing feature to push it offsite) and you’d be able to use that one for this purpose.

-Kyle

3

Totally understand. Thanks for the response.

So …
(humor me Kyle)

If I wanted to have a daily scheduled production build called ‘dailyProdBuild’ and have a ‘UAT Refresh’ deployment that ran daily, this is how I could do it (?).

BUILD

  1. Create a build called with Build ID = "dailyProdBuild’ that copies the production file.
  2. Schedule that build for a future time.
  3. Find the build schedule in Admin Console and edit it to be a daily schedule.

DEPLOYMENT

  1. Create a UAT Refresh deployment that uses build ID ‘dailyProdBuild’ as the source
  2. Schedule that deployment for a future time.
  3. Find the deployment schedule in Admin Console and edit it to be a daily schedule (an hour after the daily build)

Let me know if I am missing something.

All the best,
Nat

4

That’s exactly it!

-Kyle

1 Like