command line

As of Drush 4.5, migrating a Drupal site between servers became much easier. The new, little-known drush archive-dump and drush archive-restore commands make it an essentially three step process.

Overview

A basic Drupal site is made of two fundamental elements: the codebase and the database. When you migrate a Drupal site, you need to migrate both of these elements, often with a bit of re-configuration to boot.

The Old Way

Before using Drush to migrate a site, my standard procedure for site migration looked something like this:

Database Migration