Using drush aliases between environments

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    Using drush alias for production environment from staging server

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    Your staging and production environments may be on different servers, in which case you cannot use drush aliases directly from staging for production environment which is on a different server. To be able to do this you can use ssh key forwarding by using the -A argument to SSH when connecting from your local computer.

    To ssh on to the server use the following command replacing the server name as appropriate- 

    ssh -A example.test@staging-1.prod.hosting.acquia.com

    You should now be able to use drush aliases against your production environment from staging server.

    drush @example.prod status

    Please note this will only be during the active session. Once the connection is closed you need to SSH again using the -A argument

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