Storing Umbraco settings on the file system and packaging changes for deployment

Question

Does anybody know of an easy way to store Umbraco settings (Document Types, Media Types etc) on the file system in order to manage that data within source control?

Note: changes to settings made on the file system need to be easily integrated back into the CMS database.

Also, does anybody know of a way to package up settings from a development environment for rolling out to staging and live environments?

Answer 1

There is no method currently other than rolling your own package to do it but it should be relatively straight forward using the API. Check out the "Backing up Document Types" article as a starting point .

Your second point about deployment was something discussed in an open session at the Umbraco Codegarden this year and no conclusion was made that was a one answer fits all.