Merge into production

Now that you’ve had the chance to verify that your application built and deployed correctly on your development environment, you’re ready to merge it into your production site. Platform.sh provides backup features that protect against any unforeseen consequences of your merges, keeping a historical copy of all of your code and data.

Note:

The --project flag is not needed if you are running the platform command from within your local repository.

Create a backup

Before you merge the dev feature into master, create a backup of the master environment. The backup will preserve both the code and all of its data.
```
platform backup --project <project id>
```
Select master as the environment you want to back up.
Merge feature into production
```
git checkout master
git merge dev
git push
```
When the build process completes, verify that your changes have been merged.
```
platform url
```
Restore a backup

If you would like to restore the code and data to the time of your backup, use the command
```
platform backup:restore --project <project id>
```