[Zope3-dev] fssync and export/import for Zope 3

[Jeff Shell]

YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES OH GOD YES!

I mean. Yes! Backup/restore, and deploy. We're deploying a customers
site in chunks - one section, then another, then a third. It's content
that's being migrated off of Zope 2. The other developer here was
complaining about having to do the third chunk on the live server. All
of these chunks are well sectioned off, and import/export would be
wonderful.

fssync isn't in the release (we try to only use release code around
here - easier to manage), and we didn't know what it meant that the
code looks like it hasn't been touched in over a year - is it simple
and stable enough to work with production Zope 3.1, or has it fallen
behind? We didn't know this, but were thinking that now that things
have settled down (somewhat), it might be nice to investigate.

So - yes! This exactly mirrors a conversation we had just a couple of
minutes ago.

On 10/7/05, Garrett Smith <garrett at mojave-corp.com> wrote:
> Is anyone interested in using export/import capabilities in Zope 3?
>
> As we get more Zope 3 deployments, I think this will become an important topic. It looks like the fssync code has become only slightly stale. With a little use, this could be break-out feature for Zope 3 developers.
>
> As Jim just pointed out, there are a couple a 'visions' associated with fssync:
>
> - The export/import functionality people are used to with Zope 2
>
> - A checkin/checkout functionality that would let someone make long-running changes to a part of a site, with the option of commiting or aborting those changes
>
> I suspect the export/import feature alone will be attractive to anyone with production servers, as it enables object-specific backup and restore.
>
> If anyone is interested in using this, let me know. I'll be looking into adding a simple command-line tool for object-specific backup/restore (i.e. export/import) and it would be helpful to have some other users, if not contributors.
>
>  -- Garrett
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