Synchronizing Plone 4 sites
Question: I'm using Plone 4 for my sites and I was wondering if there is a way to
synchronize two plone sites i.e. be able to synchronize my development site
with my production site.

I have looked at [Zsyncer](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Products.ZSyncer)
product and it appears it is no longer maintained. Besides, the last version
is not compatible with Plone 4.

I am thinking of writing a custom script that will handle exporting of the
data.fs files and the src files as explained in these two articles:

[Copying a remote site
database](http://developer.plone.org/hosting/zope.html#copying-a-remote-site-
database)

[Copying a Plone site](http://plone.org/documentation/kb/copying-a-plone-site)

Is there a better way of synchronizing two plone sites as described by my use
case above?


Answer: For keeping the code synchronized, you want collective.hostout

For the database, use collective.recipe.backup - you could probably also use
hostout to import the backups

