On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Morgen Bullock Healy <mhe...@appgeo.com>wrote:
> All-****
>
> We are running Geoserver 2.1 on a virtual machine to support multiple
> different websites, all of which have different data. So, we have many
> layers, styles, layer groups, etc with a very careful naming convention to
> keep track of which ones belong to which website. ****
>
> ** **
>
> In some cases we want to copy a subset of layers, layer groups, and styles
> (i.e. everything for one of the sites) from one geoserver instance to
> another. Is there a quick way to do this without having to re-publish all
> layers, re-assign all styles, and re-build all layer groups? Since we want
> to just copy a subset, simply copying the entire data_dir is not going to
> work.****
>
> ** **
>
> Can we safely copy certain files and folders from data_dir\workspaces,
> data_dir\layergroups and data_dir\styles from one machine to another,
> restart, and expect to see everything as we want it on the 2nd machine?
> We’ve tried this with mixed results. Sometimes Geoserver throws errors on
> restart. Are there any tricks to this?****
>
> ** **
>
> Any advice or ideas would be much appreciated.
>
What you're doing _should_ work, not sure what errors might arise.
It would certainly be nice to have config import/export abilities from the
GUI, select workspace/layers/styles
from one server, download a zip file with everything, upload on the other,
would make for a popular
extension module.
Cheers
Andrea
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