Upload Files
Files refer to everything stored inside sites/default/files. This usually consists of uploaded images, generated stylesheets, aggregated scripts, etc. Files are not under Git version control and are stored separately from the site's code.
You can use the Pantheon Dashboard, SFTP, or Rsync to upload your site's files.
Follow the steps below to export a tar.gz or .zip file of your directory files.
Navigate to your Drupal site's root directory to run this command:
cd sites/default/files tar -czf ~/files.tar.gz .Now you have created an archive file in your user's home directory.
Select the Dev environment in the Site Dashboard.
Select Database / Files.
Click Import and then add your archive (based on file size) by following the steps below.
If your archive is under 100MB, upload the file directly:
Navigate to the Archive of site files field > click File > Choose File.
Select your local archive file > click Import.
If your archive is less than 500MB, import it from URL:
Navigate to the Archive of site files field > click URL.
Paste a publicly accessible URL for the archive > click Import.
Info:NoteYou must change the end of Dropbox URLs from
dl=0todl=1to import your archive correctly.
We recommend using the Terminus Rsync Plugin to transfer a large number of files. This allows you to avoid using multiple command line arguments and specific directory structures, which make it easy to introduce mistakes.
Rsync only transfers the new changes to the directory after the initial rsync runs. This minimizes the time a site is in an unpredictable state (or offline) during the final step of migration, and allows you to bring over only new content rather than re-copying every single file.
Run the following command to sync your current directory to Pantheon:
terminus rsync . my_site.dev:filesRun the following command if you experience interrupted transfers due to connectivity issues, which can occur when using Rsync manually.
ENV='dev' SITE='SITEID' read -sp "Your Pantheon Password: " PASSWORD if [[ -z "$PASSWORD" ]]; then echo "Whoops, need password" exit fi while [ 1 ] do sshpass -p "$PASSWORD" rsync --partial -rlvz --size-only --ipv4 --progress -e 'ssh -p 2222' ./files/* --temp-dir=../tmp/ $ENV.$SITE@appserver.$ENV.$SITE.drush.in:files/ if [ "$?" = "0" ] ; then echo "rsync completed normally" exit else echo "Rsync failure. Backing off and retrying..." sleep 180 fi doneYour files will be uploaded to your Pantheon site's Dev environment. If an error occurs during transfer, the command waits 180 seconds before continuing where it left off.