Entire hour for 20-30 pages?!! There's something very wrong in your system if that's the case. I can export 70-80 pages in just a few seconds and the export has never failed to load. Just tested it actually .... about 40 seconds total time from hitting the export button to download completed.

Just for the record though, my environment:
Mandrake Linux 10 on a Dell Optiplex (just a couple of years old)
MySQL version 4
Magnolia 3.0.3-SNAPSHOT (4/6/2007) custom build to use jackrabbit 1.2.3 (only changed the dependencies in the pom.xml files)
Tomcat 5.5.23 / Sun JDK 1.5.0_06

I've checked the coding for the persistence manager in jackrabbit 1.2.3 and it's the same as in 1.0.1 (currently shipped with magnolia 3.0.2CE) except they added some retry logic for when the db connection goes bad.

Can you provide more detail for your export? Are you checking the "Keep versions" checkbox? That would make the export much bigger (and take longer).

--David


Miranda Jones wrote:

I have never been able to get the export tool (from the Tools menu) to export XML correctly even with the "Format XML" box left unchecked. I just tried this again to reverify (which took an entire hour for about 20-30 pages!) and there are still line breaks all through the paragraph content (sometimes even in the middle of HTML tags).

This is definitely extremely undesirable. Even if re-saving the paragraphs again worked, that is not a very good solution for a site import with scores of pages and hundreds of paragraphs! It doesn't work though, as the line breaks are turned into <br/>.

We use MySQL to store content, so right now our backup method is to just make sure the MySQL databases are kept backed up. It would be nice, though, to have a working XML export, too.

-- Miranda


David Smith wrote:

I'm sure the answer was in this thread somewhere, but I'll ask because it's easier ....

Just out of curiosity, how did you do the export?
I've seen the right-click export method create the "pretty" formatted indented xml which does cause problems on import. Using the magnolia export tool (Export from the Tools menu on the left in AdminCentral) and then making sure the "Format XML" checkbox is clear always works for me.

--David

Jean Pierre Malrieu wrote:

It's even worse than I thought then, if it affects every backup- restore cycle. I can tell that my paragraphs (pasted from word in fck) CANNOT be "reconverted" by saving again the paragraph. I don't want to be too critical, because magnolia CE is an open source tool, and a very promising one, but a CMS that cannot be saved and restored, and in the case of magnolia CE, that cannot be updated, is not ready for production.

JPM

Le 26 avr. 07 à 19:32, Sebastian Frick a écrit :

I remember this issue has already been reported in JIRA. Usually you can "re-convert" those richtext-fields by clicking the responsible dialog and save the data again. I don't think this behaviour isn't caused by a different tomcat-version. Nevertheless this issue is a big blocker for me...

Sebastian

Maintaining a site with magnolia proves to be a real nightmare.
The bugs in 3.0.1 forced me to update to 3.0.2.
I also downgraded from Tomcat 5.5.17 to 5.0.28, because of some issues with table paragraphs, and because 5.0.28 is the version magnolia ships with.
I exported everything and imported it back.
Most of the pages have problems now: line breaks appearing randomly, tables created with fck editor which confuse content and html, and so on...

What a mess!
Am I the only one to experience this?
At least we should be warned that one should not export and import to magnolia instances running on a different version of tomcat...
What's the point with exporting to xml if everything gets scrumbled?

JPM




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