[elephant-devel] Converting MIGRATE to BACKUP

[Ian Eslick]

It might make sense to just have it be a separate common-lisp.net  
project.  We can have an optional elephant module that adds the  
appropriate dependencies and wraps it into the Elephant framework.   
(Perhaps a contrib for now until the features stabilize?)

Ian

On Mar 3, 2008, at 8:33 AM, Henrik Hjelte wrote:

> 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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