MarkW, We utilize a postgres database dump and restore plus directory rsync to synchronize staging services and production instances. Its a very light process and generally takes less time than what your attempting. You want to be able to reduce the copying of resources that already exist on your target system. I created this process while dealing with upgrades at MIT, we use in now as a component of the upgrade process with our @mire clients. This is the smartest way I know of to clone a DSpace instance.
MarkD -- Mark R. Diggory @mire - http://www.atmire.com On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Mark H. Wood<mw...@iupui.edu> wrote: > We're working with a partner who want to keep a separate test instance > with content tracking the (sizable) live repository fairly closely. > The requirement that I've been given is to entirely replace the > content from live every week or two. > > Deleting 17,000 items (and over 20,000 bitstreams) is an all-day > operation, and then comes the loading phase. It would save a lot of > time if I could export the Community/Collection structure, EPerson and > Group objects, registries, and anything else that's not an Item, > Bundle, or Bitstream; drop and recreate the database; empty the > assetstore and history; reload the noncontent tables; and then begin > loading. > > So I'm looking at adding export/import for all of those objects, > probably to XML. In the case of Community and Collection I guess the > best thing would be to just do a single exporter producing the same > XML dialect consumed by the existing Community and Collection > Structure Importer. Likewise for the registries, it seems. The other > classes would need importers built as well as exporters. Comments? > > Or is there a smarter way to make a consistent clone of a DSpace > instance, with its own Handles, that is writable but doesn't affect > the original? (The Handle business, plus the need to quiesce the > production site to ensure consistency across database and assetstore, > is why I don't just use tar and pg_dump.) > > -- > Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu > Friends don't let friends publish revisable-form documents. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial > Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited > royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing > server and web deployment. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects > _______________________________________________ > DSpace-tech mailing list > DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
