Thanks for your replying guys, it would be great if we could get an official Google response to update us on this as well though!
I'll definitely have a look at the Bulk Loader in the meantime... On Jun 28, 1:52 pm, Mike Dillon <mikedillo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Mscwd01, > > I'm not a google employee, but I have had success backing up our > datastore and then restoring our datastore with > the bulkloader utility. Currently the bulkloader is in the python sdk, > so all you need to do is download that and then > youll be able to do backups and restore from those backups. Check out > the literature on the app engine, and try > a couple searches to get your bearings. Nick Johnson has commented or > written every search result that comes > back when I was researching this a couple of weeks back, and there is > also an I/O video on the bulkloader. > > Make sure you read some of the fine print, i.e. one caveat is that you > must have had your datastore populated for > at least 12 hours which is the amount of time it takes for the > statistics info to be built. That what the bulkloader > works off of to do its datastore dump. > > - Mike > > On Jun 28, 7:16 am, mscwd01 <mscw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Hey Google Employees, > > > There has been a backup/restore facility on the roadmap for a while > > now. Can you let us know if and when we may get an in-built tool that > > will allow us to easily save the contents of the datastore to our > > local machines and restore it if needs be? > > > In the meantime, what is the preferred solution to backup/restore our > > Java based apps? > > > Thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine for Java" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine-j...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine-java+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en.
