[Zope] Duplicating a Zope Instance

[Paul Winkler]

On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 07:11:18PM -0400, Chris Kratz wrote:
> One last caveat with products.  I found out the hard way that you can't just 
> copy the products directory if the two zope versions are not identical.  The 
> reason is that much of the functionality of zope is implemented as products 
> (pythonscripts, etc).  So, if you are copying between versions of zope, you 
> may overrite a newer or older product if you just copy the entire folder.

Search zope.org for how to set up INSTANCE_HOME, and you can avoid this:
your products and extensions will be in a separate directory from the
stuff that comes with zope. Then you can just copy that directory with
no worries.

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