[web2py] Re: Export DB from admin?

2011-03-21 Thread Anthony
You can use export_to_csv_file, but I don't think you can do it from admin: http://web2py.com/book/default/chapter/06#CSV-(all-tables-at-once) Anthony

[web2py] Re: Export DB from admin?

2011-03-21 Thread VP
Is export_to_csv a preferred way of backup up database? On Mar 21, 1:58 pm, Anthony wrote: > You can use export_to_csv_file, but I don't think you can do it from > admin:http://web2py.com/book/default/chapter/06#CSV-(all-tables-at-once) > > Anthony

[web2py] Re: Export DB from admin?

2011-03-21 Thread pbreit
I'd be curious to hear thoughts on that as well. I was contemplating what to do when switching from SQLite to Postgres, but I'd also like to undertand better what to do in production.

[web2py] Re: Export DB from admin?

2011-03-21 Thread villas
Each DB has its own methods. The integrity and consistency of relational data is of crucial importance. I would only trust the approved and recommended backup tool for the DB. I normally write separate commandline scripts to do the backups which run from cron during the night. The script also rsyn

[web2py] Re: Export DB from admin?

2011-03-21 Thread vtp2...@gmail.com
I don't know if it was because I used the old SQLite version (Debian 5), but SQLite constantly had a database lock problem. (You can Google this). And when there's a database lock problem, you'll have to restart the server essentially. Other than that, SQLite is very fast; a lot faster than post

[web2py] Re: Export DB from admin?

2011-03-21 Thread ron_m
I moved from MySQL to PostgreSQL a few months ago with a small database but with a significant number of many to many relations as well as one to many. Here is what I did: Exported the data from MySQL using the export_to_csv_file call from the shell with the model activated which pushes all the

[web2py] Re: Export DB from admin?

2011-03-21 Thread pbreit
Great info, thanks!

Re: [web2py] Re: Export DB from admin?

2011-03-22 Thread Kenneth Lundström
On 22.3.2011 7:42, pbreit wrote: Great info, thanks! If you are moving from one database to another then you can have to open database connection in web2py extract data and write it back to the other database. Kenneth