Refresh Test Portal

[DeanHowell1]

What is the best way to refresh our test portal for ArcGIS with the content in the production Portal for ArcGIS?

Is there a way to do some form of replication or back-up and restore?

[DerekLaw]

Hi Dean,

> Is there a way to do some form of replication or back-up and restore?

For replication, please see this help topic:
About distributed collaboration—Portal for ArcGIS (10.6) | ArcGIS Enterprise 

For back-up and restore, please see this help topic:
ArcGIS Enterprise backups—Portal for ArcGIS (10.6) | ArcGIS Enterprise 

Hope this helps,

[JonathanQuinn]

The DR tool will only work if the user-facing URLs, (the web context URL or web adaptor URL) for the Enterprise is identical bewteen where you take a backup and where you apply it, so it likely won't work for a test -> production type workflow. I'd suggest the Python API or collaboration.

clone_portal_users_groups_and_content | ArcGIS for Developers 

[DeanHowell1]

Thanks everyone that is very useful. We will look into both the collaboration and cloning option to see what is most effective.