How to duplicate a live site to use as a test site

[Paul B]

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How to duplicate a live site to use as a test site

These instructions explain how to create a test installation which is an exact duplicate of your live installation. On Your Server Create a new test database with a different database name, user name and password to your live installation...

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[Neilski]

Got me thinking, the server cron is set to a live site (live site cmd.php path) not the test site so it's only firing once, not two times. The test site fails so it really never runs the bounce check and nothing goes on the server log??? So by setting the cron to server based it effectively kills the process. @Neilski

Ahh, OK yes this would be a drawback of the server-based cron I guess - if you forget to set up a new cron job (or swapping back to activity-based) when cloning the site then the cron jobs never happen at all... (A good reminder, given that I'm considering swapping to server-based on our site.)

So we're back to basically having nothing to contradict my impression that email bounce handling can fire on a test site even when mail is disabled.
@Paul B - can you definitively comment?