About Synchronizing Files Between Different Environments

To download a single database dump from production to staging environment, you can use the unix scp command as follows:

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$ scp <username>@<host>:~/path/to/production/backups/latest.sql \
/path/to/staging/backups/latest.sql

To download multiple media files from production to staging, you can use the unix rsync command as follows:

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$ rsync --archive --compress --partial --progress \
<username>@<host>:/path/to/production-media-directory/ \
/path/to/staging-media-directory/

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