Re: Restore backups with DirectoryStorage

Toby Dickenson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.zope.zodb.dirstorage
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Monday 20 Jun 2005 20:13, Andrés Arias Camaño wrote:

> How should I restore this backup? 

> Should I only unzip this tgz under my 
> directorystorage directory ${directoryFSPath} of my zope instance 

Yes, thats all. Then unzip any incremental files into the same directory, in 
order. For extra confidence you can perform this procedure in a temporary 
directory, and check the result using checkds.

> (shutting 
> down zope, unzipping and then start zope)

Yes. Other processes that access the directory should be stopped too, for 
example replication running out of cron.

> or is there a tool I need to use 
> to perform this task?

No, nothing special.

> Also, please let me know if there are details that 
> should be considered when restoring a backup from server A to server B
> (with the same Zope, DirectoryStorage and other products and OS), just in
> case this is required in our project.

Nothing special for this case either.

I hope that helps,


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