As I have got issues during my last magento upgrade, I have decided to move my development instance of Magento on the server than the production instance of Magento.
I am using memcached and you must take that there is not conflict between the two instances. The solution is to configure a prefix.
You will find below an extract of my app/etc/local.xml file:
<config> <global> <cache> <backend>memcached</backend> <prefix>dev_</prefix> <slow_backend>database</slow_backend> <slow_backend_store_data>0</slow_backend_store_data> <auto_refresh_fast_cache>1</auto_refresh_fast_cache> <lifetime>259200</lifetime> <backend_options> <servers> <server> <host><![CDATA[127.0.0.1]]></host> <port><![CDATA[11212]]></port> <persistent><![CDATA[1]]></persistent> <weight><![CDATA[2]]></weight> <timeout><![CDATA[5]]></timeout> <retry_interval><![CDATA[5]]></retry_interval> <status><![CDATA[1]]></status> </server> </servers> <compression><![CDATA[0]]></compression> </backend_options> </cache> </global> </config>
So just add the prefix tag and specify your prefix, dev_ for example, for your cached backend.
Voila,
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