David Ascher wrote:

Is it easy to take the DB from a Zope server and plop it into another Zope server? I'm not talking about load-sharing, but staging of servers -- I tend to do my web management on a local machine, and have a periodic job upload the files into the less-easily configured 'public' server. Can I just tar the var/ directory and misc. external methods and move that over,

The short answer is yes. You'll need to be careful to shutdown the app before moving the files over. It might be nice to have a tool that makes this easier, or even allows it to be done without shutting down. If you want to pursue this, I'd be happy to help you get started.

or are there other dependencies?

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