Re: Scheduling .car creation (in other words: scheduling settings backups)

2006-07-20 Thread Beru
OK, thanks all for your support and useful suggestions. This is the crappy code I wrote to enhance the crappy CF UI (and I mean it, this UI and admin API does not deserve an *enterprise* label. Although I love CF and support it since v. 4, it really lags behind in terms of functionality for server

Re: Scheduling .car creation (in other words: scheduling settings backups)

2006-07-20 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Wednesday 19 July 2006 15:12, Larry Lyons wrote: > Times like this I just want to find a brick wall and beat it to death with > my head. Sounds like you just removed the sticky plaster someone put in in the dim and distant past... -- Tom Chiverton ***

Re: Scheduling .car creation (in other words: scheduling settings backups)

2006-07-19 Thread Larry Lyons
> On Tuesday 18 July 2006 16:22, Larry Lyons wrote: > > - trying to figure out why a SQL insert that has worked for > thousands of > > transactions suddenly stopped working for one and only one set of > items. > > Ahh, one of *them* :-) The problem turned out to be nothing related to SQL, but a

Re: Scheduling .car creation (in other words: scheduling settings backups)

2006-07-19 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Tuesday 18 July 2006 16:22, Larry Lyons wrote: > - trying to figure out why a SQL insert that has worked for thousands of > transactions suddenly stopped working for one and only one set of items. Ahh, one of *them* :-) -- Tom Chiverton T

RE: Scheduling .car creation (in other words: scheduling settings backups)

2006-07-18 Thread Dave Watts
> Okay... I was not referring to the problem solving part of > being a programmer, I was just trying to lighten the mood > (opposite effect resulted, apparently). > > Anyways, it's hot, I need to sleep, and I only have about 60 > cf-talk messages to skim through left... I can only speak for mys

Re: Scheduling .car creation (in other words: scheduling settings backups)

2006-07-18 Thread Mingo Hagen
Dave Watts wrote: >> In programming laziness is a good characteristic. >> > > But you're not programming, you're trying to solve a problem. Laziness is > not a good characteristic for problem-solving. Okay... I was not referring to the problem solving part of being a programmer, I was just t

RE: Scheduling .car creation (in other words: scheduling settings backups)

2006-07-18 Thread Rick Faircloth
day, July 18, 2006 5:32 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Scheduling .car creation (in other words: scheduling settings backups) > ok ok, I did not mean to offend anyone out there, so forgive me if I > did. Speaking for myself, I'm not offended. > - There seems to be no obvious way to sch

RE: Scheduling .car creation (in other words: scheduling settings backups)

2006-07-18 Thread Dave Watts
> ok ok, I did not mean to offend anyone out there, so forgive > me if I did. Speaking for myself, I'm not offended. > - There seems to be no obvious way to schedule .car creation > from within CF, at least from what I got as reactions up to > now. Or is there? Not exactly obvious, but nothin

Re: Scheduling .car creation (in other words: scheduling settings backups)

2006-07-18 Thread Beru
ok ok, I did not mean to offend anyone out there, so forgive me if I did. To summarize: - There seems to be no obvious way to schedule .car creation from within CF, at least from what I got as reactions up to now. Or is there? - I got 2 interesting answers on this topic, in which I'll dig into and

RE: Scheduling .car creation (in other words: scheduling settings backups)

2006-07-18 Thread Dave Watts
> In programming laziness is a good characteristic. But you're not programming, you're trying to solve a problem. Laziness is not a good characteristic for problem-solving. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized

Re: Scheduling .car creation (in other words: scheduling settings backups)

2006-07-18 Thread Larry Lyons
That's understandable then. Look at it this way you could be having my day - trying to figure out why a SQL insert that has worked for thousands of transactions suddenly stopped working for one and only one set of items. larry > On Tuesday 18 July 2006 15:41, Larry Lyons wrote: > > My what a go

Re: Scheduling .car creation (in other words: scheduling settings backups)

2006-07-18 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Tuesday 18 July 2006 15:41, Larry Lyons wrote: > My what a good mood you're in. I blame: http://www.rachaelandtom.info/node/1347 'a bit thin' is an understatement. -- Tom Chiverton, now fighting with randomly generated chart data This ema

Re: Scheduling .car creation (in other words: scheduling settings backups)

2006-07-18 Thread Larry Lyons
My what a good mood you're in. A suggestion, lighten up a bit eh? It was a good question. larry > On Tuesday 18 July 2006 09:35, Mingo Hagen wrote: > > In programming laziness is a good characteristic. > > Depends on what else you have to do I suppose. > Do you spend two days waiting for some g

Re: Scheduling .car creation (in other words: scheduling settings backups)

2006-07-18 Thread Beru
Mark, you are a resource! ;-) Thanks for your advice, I'll dig this way further in, with my java-enabled colleagues... I had a dream... that CF "Enterprise"... well, never mind... :( On 7/18/06, Mark Stanton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey Beru > > Pretty much everything is in XML files - som

RE: Scheduling .car creation (in other words: scheduling settings backups)

2006-07-18 Thread Rick Faircloth
sage- From: Beru [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 9:53 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Scheduling .car creation (in other words: scheduling settings backups) Hehehe... I thought so... We already have full backups of our dir structures, of course... But this does not provide us e

Re: Scheduling .car creation (in other words: scheduling settings backups)

2006-07-18 Thread Mark Stanton
Hey Beru Pretty much everything is in XML files - some are under your JRUN root, some are under your CF root (which may or may not be under your JRUN root). This is not really documented anywhere that I have ever been able to locate. We have built a deployment system that can (almost) drop & conf

Re: Scheduling .car creation (in other words: scheduling settings backups)

2006-07-18 Thread Beru
Hehehe... I thought so... We already have full backups of our dir structures, of course... But this does not provide us enough flexibility in case of disaster recovery, site/instance migrations, etc... The idea is to backup the CF settings of an instance to *quickly* move a specific instance runn

Re: Scheduling .car creation (in other words: scheduling settings backups)

2006-07-18 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Tuesday 18 July 2006 14:14, Beru wrote: > can help me and be more specific: where in the admin api did you find a > method to do this? I thought I went through all of them... In that case it's not there :-) You could write something with CFHTTP to login and submit the forms, I suppose. Why no

Re: Scheduling .car creation (in other words: scheduling settings backups)

2006-07-18 Thread Beru
Thank you, master Tom... Now I know I reached my limits, ;) so maybe you can help me and be more specific: where in the admin api did you find a method to do this? I thought I went through all of them... Cheers, after all... On 7/18/06, Tom Chiverton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 18

Re: Scheduling .car creation (in other words: scheduling settings backups)

2006-07-18 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Tuesday 18 July 2006 09:35, Mingo Hagen wrote: > In programming laziness is a good characteristic. Depends on what else you have to do I suppose. Do you spend two days waiting for some guru on cf-talk and then moaning no one answered, or 5 minutes trying it yourself or reading the docs (hint:

Re: Scheduling .car creation (in other words: scheduling settings backups)

2006-07-18 Thread Mingo Hagen
In programming laziness is a good characteristic. Mingo. Tom Chiverton wrote: > On Tuesday 18 July 2006 07:19, Beru wrote: > >> So, does this silence mean that there's no solution? >> > > Maybe you should be less lazy :-)

Re: Scheduling .car creation (in other words: scheduling settings backups)

2006-07-18 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Tuesday 18 July 2006 07:19, Beru wrote: > So, does this silence mean that there's no solution? Maybe you should be less lazy :-) -- Tom Chiverton This email is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP. Halliwells LLP is a limited liabili

Re: Scheduling .car creation (in other words: scheduling settings backups)

2006-07-17 Thread Beru
So, does this silence mean that there's no solution? On 7/17/06, Beru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello you cool Gurus... here's the cool question of the day: > > How to schedule settings backups of my CF instances? > > I went on tracing the URL of the archive wizard, hoping to be able to > st

Scheduling .car creation (in other words: scheduling settings backups)

2006-07-17 Thread Beru
Hello you cool Gurus... here's the cool question of the day: How to schedule settings backups of my CF instances? I went on tracing the URL of the archive wizard, hoping to be able to stuff the parameters in there and cfschedule it as needed, but this is as far as I got to: http://my_instance_IP: