[elephant-devel] Converting MIGRATE to BACKUP

[Henrik Hjelte]

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Ian Eslick <eslick at media.mit.edu> wrote:
> This would be great to integrate into the core code base!  Do you
>  think that would be reasonably easy to do?
yes. It adds some new dependencies, and it is not finished on the
feature list yet, but sure.

I actually intended it to be useful for other solutions as well
(rucksack, acache etc.), and to be useful for migrating between these.
But that is no reason it can't be under the elephant project.

/Henrik

>
>
>  On Mar 3, 2008, at 8:06 AM, Henrik Hjelte wrote:
>
>  > On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Leslie P. Polzer <leslie.polzer at gmx.net
>  > > wrote:
>  >>
>  >> To be able to backup all objects to another store, would it be
>  >> enough to modify MIGRATE so it doesn't update the home store
>  >> of objects?
>  >
>  > I've mentioned it before, but here is another ad: I have made a basic
>  > import/export facility that can dump and restore elephant databases to
>  > a file in sexp format. I use it to migrate data and to do backups. It
>  > feels safe that the data is in a human readable file.
>  > Currrent main restriction is that data should fit in main memory, but
>  > I will fix that sometime.
>  >
>  > It is hidden under the grand-prix project on common-lisp-net:
>  > common-lisp.net/project/grand-prix/darcs/gp-export
>  >
>  > /Henrik
>
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