I have 2 websites that offer exactly the same content just with different layouts, Im currently updating both sites daily putting the same content on both, I want to make a php script or something similar and run it on a cron to automatically copy the DB from one server to the other server but i don't want it to duplicate the content already there, The Database has a unique field for which it can check against.
Thanks
You should have only the 1 database, with 2+ templates (skins) for displaying the content. Duplicating the same data in production, when there are no differences between the data sets, is somewhat pointless.
--EDIT-- May 15, 2012 @ 7:06 PM ET If you REALLY want to maintain duplicate production db's, I would suggest a web service that sends the data from one site to another. You can also think about using a trigger in your db. It really does depend on your setup, where the web server(s) are located, the DB server(s), etc.