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Cannot import workspace://spacesStore repository with ACP

jevon — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 01:46:30 GMT

Hi all,I'm having difficulties using the ACP export/import feature of Alfresco as a way to backup and restore an Alfresco repository. This is a fairly empty repository on a local dev machine - the entire repository is only about 40MB.I've exported the workspace://SpacesStore repository using the fol

Re: Cannot import workspace://spacesStore repository with ACP

jpotts — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 14:30:02 GMT

Dumping the database and copying the content store is the preferred method of a backup and restore. Especially because you are trying to restore into a new repository. I'd use that approach rather than ACP.

Jeff

Re: Cannot import workspace://spacesStore repository with ACP

jevon — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:38:14 GMT

Hi Jeff,

Thanks for your answer. We were looking at ACPs because we asked about the scenario of moving content between repositories, e.g. development to production environment, and you recommended ACPs at https://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=42847 .

I understand that ACPs are better for moving/copying/restoring parts of the repository, but does this mean ACPs can't be used to copy/restore an entire repository? Does ACP export/import support browsing through the repository, e.g. workspace://spacesStore/user_sites/myusername or whatever?

If ACPs are intended to backup/restore entire repositories (as implied at the wiki link), are the problems listed above expected?

Or, are ACPs only intended to copy repositories within a single Alfresco instance, e.g. workspace://spacesStore to workspace://spacesStoreBackup?

Cheers

Re: Cannot import workspace://spacesStore repository with ACP

mrogers — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 08:50:40 GMT

ACPs are only partial dumps that's why the "full repository export" option is not allowed. It is "good enough" for trees of documents etc, but ultimately is on the backlog to be replaced.

Re: Cannot import workspace://spacesStore repository with ACP

jpotts — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 18:08:11 GMT

jevon,

In my forum post you cited is an important disclaimer: "…depending on how much content you are moving between environments…"

I would definitely not use ACP for a full repo migration.

Jeff

Re: Cannot import workspace://spacesStore repository with ACP

jevon — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 21:15:24 GMT

Thanks for the replies, I thought that might be the case.

In that case, how can one tell when it would be appropriate to use ACP, and when it would be appropriate to use a full database dump? What directory trees can and cannot be exported/imported using ACP? How does the ACP export/import command line tool support sub-trees, I guess with the -path argument?

Re: Cannot import workspace://spacesStore repository with ACP

jpotts — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:33:50 GMT

I think a good rule of thumb would be to say that if you are exporting and importing instances of cm:content (or a child type) you are fine with ACP's up to a certain volume. What that volume is (in terms of both number and size) depends entirely on your configuration (hardware and software), but I don't think I'd use ACP for more than a few thousand nodes of "reasonable" size. Sub-directories are fine.

Wish I could give you a more specific answer,

Jeff

Re: Cannot import workspace://spacesStore repository with ACP

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