After you prepare your application, create a Drupal site archive.
A Drupal site archive is a gzip-compressed .tar file containing the
following structure:
A single top-level directory containing your application’s Drupal
docroot,
including the index.php file, the modules and the /includes
directory, and sites/*.
Acquia Cloud imports your application’s user-uploaded files from the
[docroot]/sites/*/files directory of the directory containing a
settings.php file. For more information about docroots, see
Docroot definition.
The uncompressed MySQL dump file from your Drupal application in the root of
the .tar file. This file can have any name, but must have an .sql
extension.
The following sample archive file shows the site archive structure of a
Drupal 7 application with the tar -tzf archive.tar.gz command that lists
the contents of the .tar file:
tar -tzf archive.tar.gz
./your-database-goes-here.sql
./drupal-7
./drupal-7/index.php
[... other Drupal files ...]
./drupal-7/sites
./drupal-7/sites/cleaninstall.localhost
./drupal-7/sites/cleaninstall.localhost/settings.php
./drupal-7/sites/cleaninstall.localhost/files/
./drupal-7/sites/cleaninstall.localhost/files/myimage.jpg
Check you have installed Drush version 8 or greater. You can download Drush from GitHub. Installing Composer may also be a prerequisite for installing Drush.
Go to the Drupal directory and enter the following command:
drush archive-dump --destination=../mysite.tar.gz
Drush saves the mysite.tar.gz site archive file to the parent directory
of your current Drupal directory. If the command displays error messages,
ensure it has the required permissions to save files in that directory.
Copy mysite.tar.gz to your local machine.
To import a site archive file using the Acquia Cloud user interface, the file must be located at a publicly accessible URL. You can use services such as Dropbox or Google Drive, or a web server you control.
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