Mirroring
📘 Note Mirroring is not supported on Optimizely Content Management System (CMS 12), Digital Experience Platform (DXP) and other cloud deployments. Mirroring will be removed in future versions.
Mirroring lets you maintain content in one location and push it to other sites by scheduling the export or import of selected CMS data from one site to another. The Optimizely Content Management System (CMS) administration interface lets you manage mirroring rules and associated batch jobs. Mirroring keeps track of moved and deleted pages, maintaining the exact page structure.
The following objects are included in mirroring:
- Content items such as pages in selected parts of the page tree structure and files linked from these pages
- Content types such as page and block types (optional, see XCOPY deploymentXCOPY deployment)
- Frames
- Tabs used for grouping properties
- Categories (but not new category definitions created in admin)
- Visitor groups
📘 Notes You can install mirroring only on Episerver CMS 7.5 (through the Deployment Center). If you want mirroring with the latest Optimizely version, install a CMS 7.5 site with mirroring, and then upgrade to the latest CMS through NuGet because there is no NuGet package for mirroring functionality; it is installed as a separate service in a virtual directory on the server.
An updated DLL is available in the EPiServer.CMS.Core NuGet package (packages/EPiServer.CMS.Core.9.0.0/tools/MirroringService/), which you must manually patch when upgrading.
Optimizely CMO and Optimizely Customized Commerce do not support mirroring.
You can manage the export of templates between sites through XCOPY deployment. See Deploy to Windows serversDeploy to Windows servers.
Even though two-way mirroring is possible, the mirroring service is configured as one-way mirroring; the mirroring service sends the content to another service. In CMS, the mirroring service detects whether the content was previously mirrored, so if you run a mirroring job many times without changing the content, the content on the target site is ignored and unchanged.