Create copy of plone installed onto another server with data

Question

To create another exact copy of the plone install running along with data, is it sufficient to copy buildout.cfg and Data.fs with same version of Plone on the other install? Does it restore the uploaded pdf and image files that have been done on the first server? Using plone 4.2.1 standalone install on linux

Answer 1

You are right that you also need to transfer files and images. They are stored as BLOBs on the file system.

I guess that you will find a directory named blobstorage, close to the filestorage directory where you found Data.fs.

You need to transfer this blobstorage directory and all its content.