Migrating Data from Testing to Prod

meshivam

Suppose I have both production and testing environments. I need to move some data from testing to production. Should I create an action for this? I believe creating an action requires using a standard model. If I go that route, will it affect the links between development and production, or development and testing?

rob_marshall

@meshivam

Sadly, it depends on how you answer these questions:

• how much data are you wanting to import. If it is very little, then it might be easier to just re-key that data
• if is a fair amount of data (more than manual entry warrants), then my question is how did the data get into the Dev/Test environment? If it was via an action, then when you sync DEV to Prod, that action will already be there and you should be able to repeat the process of how you got the data into DEV.
• Will you need to do this again in the future? If so, then yes, you should create the process in DEV and sync that to Prod in order to get refreshed data into Prod.