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Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:17:06 +0100
From: "Nicolas " <ntoper@gmail.com>
To: users@jackrabbit.apache.org
Subject: Re: Backup tool for Jackrabbit
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Hi Michael,

Excuse me, I misunderstood your first mail. You can import into a repository
with no data. You simply have to set the XML conf file accordingly.

(FYI, I understood importing into a repository with existing data.)

BR,
Nicolas

On 11/28/06, Michael Neale <michael.neale@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks Nicolas.
>
> I am very interested in being able to use this for migration of data to a
> new version of a repository - I think its a critical feature, suprised no
> one has asked for it yet ! So I would encourage you to look into it !
>
> So what needs to be done to add in this feature?
>
> Michael.
>
> On 11/28/06, Nicolas <ntoper@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Michael,
> >
> > On 11/28/06, Michael Neale < michael.neale@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Can anyone tell me what the status is of the backup tool for
> jackrabbit?
> > I
> > > remember reading that it was functional - is it now (1.1) part of the
> > > jackrabbit distro? (I have the wiki page on it, that is all).
> >
> >
> > It is part in the contrib directory.
> >
> > There are still some parts uncommitted (but in JIRA) so please don't use
> > it.
> > I am taking this opportunity to rethink the design of a few classes and
> > perform some house cleaning tasks (add good unit test, some class
> > renaming,...). I should post on JIRA a new zip by the end of this week
> or
> > the next one.
> >
> > As I am not a committer, I don't know when the commit will actually be
> > performed, but based on off ML discussion I am pretty confident it
> should
> > be
> > quite fast after I post the code.
> >
> > I am also interested in if the backup/restore tool is suitable for the
> > > following scenarios:
> > >
> > > 1) migrating from one repository with data to an new empty repository.
> >
> >
> > It is built for this.
> >
> > 2) exporting from one version of the repository, and loading into a
> newer
> > > version of the repository (with node types, but no data) (perhaps with
> > new
> > > node types) - basically seeing if it can be used for migrtion of data
> > for
> > > repo changes over time. This is a real worry of mine, I still don't
> > > understand how I can make my repository cope with Version 2.0 of the
> > > application when there is existing data ??? any ideas?
> >
> >
> > We discussed this use case. It is not currently supported, but I
> designed
> > the project in a way where it is quite easy to support it. If you give
> me
> > a
> > few more weeks, I can add it quite easily.
> >
> > This new feature can be added in an afternoon (I know I have hardly free
> > time those days). All contributions on this are welcome :)
> >
> > BR,
> > Nico
> > my blog! http://www.deviant-abstraction.net !!
> >
> >
>

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