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Use n98-magerun Script Repository

Since some releases we support script. Scripts are like batch files which can be executed and reused in all your local Magento installations. For everyone who is not fimilar with n98-magerun script I gave a little instruction how the scripts can be created.

My first n98-magerun script

Scripts can do three things…

  1. Register variables
  2. Run shell commands
  3. Run n98-magerun commands
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By Christian Münch, ago

Customize database dump for development

Sometimes it’s useful to dump a production database and import them on a local developer workstation.
In this case we have some issue to solve.

Legal Issues

A production database contains many critical privacy data like customer addresses, email, hashed password, orders
which can produce big trouble if a hacker or someone can access it.
For a development workstation it’s a good advice to exclude the data. In most cases a developer needs no customer data
to create a new module.

Log data

Magento produces many log data. Some tables grow up and can contain many millions of records.
An import of a database could run up to hours. This is unpractical and unwanted for development.

n98-magerun strip option

n98-magerun can help you. The database command comes with a handy strip option.
If you run n98-magerun with –help option you can see this:

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By Christian Münch, ago