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From: Adam Williams <pwnfactory@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 13:27:46 +0100
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Subject: Re: command line interface to manage CouchDB replication
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Hello Duncan,

The utility looks great. I like the use of the COUCHCLI_CONFIG file for
storing host information.

What is the difference between 'backup' and 'replicate'? It seems that
backup adds a prefix to the databases?

- Adam

On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 10:35 AM, Andy Wenk <andy@nms.de> wrote:

> Hi Duncan,
>
> thanks a lot for the post! I think it would be cool to add the link to
> https://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/CouchDB_tools even though there is already
> couchdb-utils. The fact that you build something for communicating with
> CouchDB is super cool so it should be mentioned!
>
> Thanks for your contribution
>
> Cheers
>
> Andy
>
>
> On 5 February 2014 03:55, Duncan Scott <dnscott@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I needed a command line tool to manage CouchDB replication.  A quick
> survey
> > of existing tools at the CouchDB site and on github didn't turn up
> anything
> > specific to my needs.
> >
> > So I rolled my own light utility:
> > https://github.com/duncanscott/couch-cli
> >
> >
> > $ couch-cli replicate production --all --target backup --continuous
> > skipping _replicator
> > skipping _users
> > 9878f9de1b814649503331e3b8027825 started continuous pull replication of
> > geneusprod.ws_logger to backup.ws_logger
> > 9878f9de1b814649503331e3b8029c45 started continuous pull replication of
> > geneusprod.samples-submission to backup.samples-submission
> >
> >
> > It's also possible to create backups with a prefix generated by the tool:
> >
> > $ couch-cli backup production --all --target backup --tag weekly
> > skipping _replicator
> > skipping _users
> > 9878f9de1b814649503331e3b802dff5 started pull replication of
> > geneusprod.ws_logger to
> > backup.backup_geneusprod_20140204182434419_weekly_ws_logger
> > 9878f9de1b814649503331e3b8031013 started pull replication of
> > geneusprod.samples-submission to
> > backup.backup_geneusprod_20140204182434562_weekly_samples-submission
> >
> >
> > And then to delete backups with specific tags and/or older than a given
> > number of days.
> >
> > $ couch-cli deleteBackups backup --tag weekly --olderThan 30
> >
> >
> > Thought it might be of use.
> >
> > You can build the executable using gradle or download an executable from
> > github.  Java is needed to run the executable.
> > https://github.com/duncanscott/couch-cli/release<
> > https://github.com/duncanscott/couch-cli/releases/tag/v2.0>
> >
> >
> > Thanks, Duncan
> >
> >
> >
> > P.S.
> >
> > Taking another look at http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/CouchDB_tools, it
> > looks like my application has some functionality similar to that of a new
> > project (which didn't exist when I wrote mine).
> >
> > https://github.com/awilliams/couchdb-utils
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Andy Wenk
> Hamburg - Germany
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>
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