Yep, I was restoring to another appId.

Does that mean that when you're storing entity keys as a "reference"
property you can't backup/restore to another appId ?

What is the best practice then ?  Should we create some kind of generated
UUID and use it as key for our entities then ?

François



On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 16:17, Tim Hoffman <zutes...@gmail.com> wrote:

> As to the keys changing, where you restoring to an instance with the
> same appid ?
>
> If not the keys have to change, and you might find problems where you
> store keys in list properties.
>
> T
>
> On Sep 11, 10:12 pm, Tim Hoffman <zutes...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I am actually using appcfg.py download_data and upload_data with great
> > success with 65,000 entities.
> >
> > Which is pretty much the same thing.
> >
> > I have found you may need to play around with the batch size settings
> > if you have particularly large entities.
> >
> > T
> >
> > On Sep 11, 10:01 pm, Francois Masurel <fm2...@mably.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > Hello everybody,
> >
> > > I've tried to do a full bulkloader --dump and --restore of one app to
> > > another one and it failed miserably.
> >
> > > First, I had a quite a few "Backing off" errors during export which
> > > took more than 30 minutes for about 6000 small entities.
> >
> > > Then when I restored it, I lost about 1000 entities it said it
> > > couldn't restore without explanations.
> >
> > > And then I realized that all entities keys had been changed.  So all
> > > my relations between entities were lost.
> >
> > > Did I do something wrong ?
> >
> > > Thanx for your help.
> >
> > > Francois
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