ColdFusion archives (CAR) let you archive and deploy website configuration information, files, and applications. Use this features to deploy your website applications to another location or to back up your files quickly and easily.
Note: CAR file archiving and deployment is different from J2EE archiving and packaging through EAR and WAR files.
Create
the archive definition. Creating the archive definition
involves identifying the type of information to archive about a site.
You can archive almost anything about the site, such as directories,
files, CFX tags, ColdFusion mappings, Verity collections, automated
tasks, and server settings. Each archive definition that you create
is assigned a name. You use this name each time you modify or archive
its content.
Build the archive.
Building the archive involves selecting the name of the archive
definition to archive and specifying a location to which you store
the archive (CAR file).
Deploy the archive. Deploying the archive involves specifying the location of the archive filename (CAR file) and the location to which you restore the archive file (CAR).
Notes:
ColdFusion does not deploy Administrator and RDS passwords.
ColdFusion does not unpack archives created in previous versions of ColdFusion.
When you migrate from a previous version of ColdFusion to ColdFusion 9 and then create a CAR file, if you customized the log directory setting, it is not included in the archive.