Managed metadata and taxonomy is one of the cool things in SharePoint. If you are responsible for the managment of a multi farm infrastructure with development(DEV), integration(INT) and production(PRO) systems you have to provide a solution for moving managed metadata content across different farms. I tried different approches like export/import, shared service application, etc, but none of them provide a complete solutionö. Andrew Connell is the man who can help you. In his article he describes how to move the whole service database from one farm to another.
http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog/archive/2011/06/15/sharepoint-2010-managed-metadata-movingcopying-mms-instances-term.aspx
Usually taxonomy and term store is managed and maintained on production system. If your developers need a copy of the database for testing purposes, or your project manager needs a up to date integration system, you can just move the database as described in the article.
HINT: I automated the database backup/restore process for repeating actions with MS SQL SSIS. It allows you to prepare a package with all parameters and actions required for the movement.
At the end you get a "click once" deployment between farms! Quite nice..
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