Our content authors and AEM developers would like pages and assets hosted in AEM authoring and publishing 'staging' environments to be as similar as possible to the production environment, via an automated mechanism, (e.g an overnight 'rsync'-style copy).
What is the most straightforward and most reliable way to achieve this? Essentially we'd like to copy the "diff" from live to stage, preserving anything on staging that is newer than live. So far we have considered a few options, Jackrabbit vault rcp seems like the likely candidate but is still unsatisfactory, as outlined below:
- Package manager is problematic when it comes to downloading/ uploading large volumes of assets/ images.
- Adobe's online suggestions such as Grabbit and Remote assets weren't helpful on closer inspection.
- Jackrabbit vault rcp sounds like a great candidate but vlt rcp copy commands report "PathNotFoundException" when operating over https (with SSL keystores and parameters correctly set). (Same vlt rcp commands work over http, so long as you know about FileVault vlt rcp does not copy binary data properly | AEM 6.3(See my issue [JCRVLT-328] vlt rcp fails with https PathNotFoundException - ASF JIRA ) and when copying asset nodes runs very slowly, reporting "[ERROR] Error during intermediate save (3522); try again later: javax.jcr.ItemExistsException:". (Is this just how the tool works, or are we using it wrong?).
