On 4/21/06, Graham Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 30 Mar 2006, at 11:50, Brian Sutherland wrote: > > > Anyway the data is stored inside the Zope Object Database (ZODB) > > (normally with the filename Data.fs) and there seem to be three or > > four backup methods. When I had to do it, the repozo.py script > > carried with zope 2.8 seemed the best option. > > Mac OS X 10.4.6, > Python 2.3.5, > SchoolTool 0.11.3 running from the PreferencePane. > > At a glance, I can't find > repozo.py
repozo.py comes with Zope 2.8 (apparently) but not with Zope 3 or SchoolTool. So you could download Zope 2.8 and find it in their source. > Please, can anyone elaborate/advise? > (I'm not an expert.) > > In the meantime I'm periodically stopping SchoolTool via the > PreferencePane, > manually backing up > /Data.fs > to a remote location using CyberDuck (my preferred sftp client) > then restarting SchoolTool. That's a reasonable approach. > NB in this environment > Data.fs is at the root of the file system. Yes, that's pretty much a bug in the MacOS packaging, but it should be harmless. Would you be able to move to a Linux server sometime this summer? It has become clear that we don't have the expertise and money to maintain the MacOS and Windows packages and installers without more volunteer help. --Tom _______________________________________________ Schooltool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.schooltool.org/mailman/listinfo/schooltool
