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[EP-tech] Re: Bulk export/import

From its documentation (perldoc ./bin/export) there doesn't seem to support something like that. On the other hand, the documentation mentions the option: 

'
dataset: The name of the dataset to export, such as "archive", "subject" or "user". 
'
You could maybe "exploit" this option by moving some eprints from one dataset to another and by exporting/importing each dataset separately (and then moving the appropriate eprints where they really belong).
Haven't checked the source code, though, so maybe there's another solution hidden somewhere there...:) 


On 02/07/2015 02:56 μμ, Andrew Beeken wrote:

I wonder... Is it possible to export by type? I could perhaps export each
type separately...

On 02/07/2015 12:18, "eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk on behalf of
George Mamalakis" <eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk on behalf of
mamalos@eng.auth.gr> wrote:


Ian and Andrew,

I think that one can import/export specific entries -if I'm not
mistaken-, but I'm not exactly sure about the syntax. If it allows for
ranges, the 100.000 entries problem may be addressed by just splitting
the export/import process to more than one export/import operations. I
have used this syntax to select specific eprints, but my syntax was
something like the following:

./bin/export archid archive XML 114 115 116 117 > /tmp/export1

which would seem very peculiar if it would have to be used for thousands
of records (I assume args would overflow!:)). Nonetheless, on the worst
case where ranges are not allowed, the former syntax could be used
successfully within a very carefully written script.


On 01/07/2015 06:37 μμ, Ian Stuart wrote:

On 01/07/15 15:25, Andrew Beeken wrote:

Hello all!

I’m currently looking at migrating our repository to a fresh install,
mainly because we have a bit of customisation to our live repo and I
want to see how this process would affect the integrity of the data.
Is there an easy way of importing all records from one repository,
say to an XML file and then importing to the new one?

In general (and as George says) the XML-with-files export is the way to
go.

I discovered it falls over with 100,000 records, so I just copied the
database & attached a new eprints to it :D



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School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

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