Hello Thomas, You are right, that way you wouldn't need to create such a tool - in fact, it seems it is what Michael Oliver is talking about.
In our case, we use the *bindings* extension of the TxStore witch stores the metainformation and content somewhat differently and very difficult to follow by human eyes -> no directory structure, it's just one folder with thousands of small files with sequencial numeric names with relations with each other... as I said, very difficult to follow by human eyes. The tool to implement would make transparent the way the stores persist information. In fact, you could use it with other webdav servers :) Best regards, Miguel Figueiredo -----Original Message----- From: Thomas Bellembois [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: quarta-feira, 29 de Março de 2006 15:18 To: Slide Users Mailing List Subject: Re: How to restore Slide resources ? Hello Miguel, When you say "I discover that it's enough to backup the txtStore content", you mean that I could just restore the content of a directory (and not the entire tree) ? In this way, no need to have a backup/restore tool. Regards, Thomas Miguel Figueiredo a écrit : >Hello Thomas, > > I'm not answering your question, but a while back I though at the same >problem: how to backup and restore slide's content. > Before I discover that it's enough to backup the txtStore content, I though >that I would need to create a tool that would download all content and >metainfo in the configured stores, and create a 'proprietary' backup file >with that content. I mean proprietary because, there isn't such thing as >slide's backup file, or a tool to backup/restore slide's content at runtime >(maybe I'm wrong here... I do recall someone talk about this at late 2004). > > If you specify and implement this tool, and the file's content, you could >include the backup/restore of a single collection as well. > Problem with this approach: it must download the content witch can be a >problem if it's done at a wrong schedule, that is, it's not very scalable. > >Hope this helps, >Miguel Figueiredo > >-----Original Message----- >From: Thomas Bellembois [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: quarta-feira, 29 de Março de 2006 13:16 >To: Slide Users Mailing List >Subject: Re: How to restore Slide resources ? > >Hello ! > >Sorry, I have just noticed that my explanations are not very clear... >I will try to re-explain :-) >What I wanted to say is that I think that we could save and restore the >ENTIRE Slide content and metadata just by saving the content and >metadata root path. Usefull if the Slide backend crashes... >At the University of Rennes 1 we intend to use a SAN(NAS) for the Slide >backend. This SAN makes snapshots everyday of each file/directory so >that a user can restore its documents up to 1 week ago. >But with Slide, to restore just one part of the tree (for example a user >homedir), I am not sure that we could just restore one directory (and >attached metadata) and restart the server. >Some French universities are waiting for this kind of functionnalities >to use Slide in a production use. >Hope it is more clear. > >Thanks for your help, > >Regards, > >Thomas > > >Max Pfingsthorn a écrit : > > > >>Hi! >> >>I'm not sure I understand what you mean.. What do you mean by resources? >> >> >Can you explain a bit more? > > >>Bye! >>max >> >> >> >> >> >>>-----Original Message----- >>>From: Thomas Bellembois [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 11:11 >>>To: Slide Users Mailing List >>>Subject: How to restore Slide resources ? >>> >>> >>>Hello, >>> >>>I wonder how we can restore resources on Slide - not the >>>entire backend, >>>but just some resources ? >>>We could propably do that restoring content and handling >>>metadata, but >>>this is not an easy task... >>>Some people are frightened of using Slide in a production environment >>>because of that. >>> >>>Regards, >>> >>>Thomas >>> >>>-- >>>......-=( Thomas Bellembois )=-...... >>>CRI - University of Rennes 1 (France) >>>..................................... >>> >>> >>>--------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>--------------------------------------------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> >> >> > > > > -- ......-=( Thomas Bellembois )=-...... CRI - University of Rennes 1 (France) ..................................... --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
