[Zope] Filtered exportObjects

Jerome Alet alet@unice.fr
Mon, 28 May 2001 21:16:02 +0200


On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 06:13:21PM +0200, Peter Bengtsson wrote:
> On my site I have quite a lot of Photo's meta_type=['Photo'] and they cause
> the zexp file to become very very very big (currently 86 Mb for 180 Photos).
> I would like to export my whole site but skip certain paths or meta types.
> 
> The best way would be to write a little External Method or Python Script
> that calls manage_exportObjects() with a filtered object.
> 
> ...
> Does anybody have a good solution? Or something to give me a better start.

Just use ZShell:

find / --type Photo --exec "export {}"

then all your photos will in in Zope's var directory as .zexp files.

man export
man find 

bye,

PS: The CVS code works fine with such a command, just tell me if 
yours doesn't.

Jerome Alet