I've done a couple of "back-fills" from production environments to development environments recently, and let me tell you, they're a real pain. Inevitably, everything ends up getting messed up when you do a database port from one environment to the next - Search, Automation, Knowledge Directory, Remote Servers, and so on.
One thing that I haven't had to worry much about due to Fabien Sanglier's recent release of search-and-replace utility called the PTURLReplace, described in detail in his article, "ALUI Administration Tool for Environment Refresh: String Replacing for URLS".
The tool works as advertised, and has been a great timesaver for me. It's easy to use, with a simple command-line batch file to prompt for some simple information before going to work:
Check out Fabien's article for the download link and a more detailed description of how the tool works!
UPDATE 8/20/08: Changed links in this post to point to Fabien's new blog URL.
UPDATE 8/23/2008: Fabien has updated his blog post to point to his Google Code project for this tool. You can download it here.
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