XF 2.2 Slimming down a TEST/DEV site

[Mouth]

When you have a large amount of attachments on your primary site, having a test/dev site with a copy of those is onerous and costly for storage.

I'm thinking about only copying across any attachments ( data/attachments & internal_data/attachments ) that is dated within the last 3 months and/or removing anything older than that. For the purposes of testing, this should still enable me to review/test (upgrades, etc.) with recent content knowing that anything older than 3 months will 404 and not show the attachment.

Anyone done similar to this, and ran into any issue other than the 404 for older attachments?

 

[M@rc]

Anyone done similar to this, and ran into any issue other than the 404 for older attachments?

No issues here.

 

[Paul B]

You will just see broken placeholders.

I do a similar thing on my local - sometimes I just update it with the latest SQL dump and don't bother with the directories.

 

[Kirby]

I also usually clone sites without attachments and avatars (or just a few for testing purposes); other than broken images (obviously due to the files missing) it should not casue any isseus with default XenForo - it might cause issues with 3rd party Add-ons (that do not implement proper error handling) though.