Client copies and Alfresco

[simon]

Alf,

I need to make some client copies to the development environment and would like ot use production data in the development system. This is something I would like to do regularly to have some data to work and test with.

Made an ACP package with the repository, transferred and unpacked it in the other environment.

Is everything copied if I do it like this? Security rights, meta data, file name, upload date,… or not? I noticed the key value (the node ID) is different (added on another moment?) and this is annoying if you made references to these files in another environment they are suddenly lost because they don't use the same key.

What's your approach to make client copies?

[gavinc]

It depends how you do the import/export basically.

If you do a full export from the webclient and then use the resulting acp file to bootstrap another repository all the ids will be maintained as is in the new repository.

If you are exporting just a space and importing via the web client this will create new ids upon import. Currently there isn't a way via the web client to import maintaining the ids (this could be a feature request for the importer action). For now you'd have to create a custom action and use the import API to do the import where the ids are maintained.

The import export page on the wiki has details of doing the export and bootstrap import.

Hope this makes sense and helps!