NAME

we_dump - dump a WE ObjDB database

SYNOPSIS

  we_dump [-version] [-root id | -id id] [-class dbclass] [-lang lang]
      [-attribs] [-contentattribs] [-[no]lock] [-[no]connect] [-[no]readonly]
      [-[no]failsafe] [-datadumper] [-o outfile] [rootdir]

DESCRIPTION

we_dump dumps a ObjDB database (only!) to a text file using Data::Dumper. The resulting file may be used to restore a database with the means described in "EXAMPLES".

OPTIONS

-version

Show also version objects

-root id

Start dump at the given object id (otherwise the whole database is dumped)

-id id

Alias for -root id.

-class dbclass

Specify WE::DB class e.g. WE_Singlesite::Root

-lang lang

Specify language for titles (default is "en" or the value of the LANG environment variable).

-attribs

Show also attributes (very verbose!)

-contentattribs

Show also content attributes (page type, languges...)

-lock

Lock database (for debugging lock problems)

-connect

Create permanent connection to database (for debugging, default is on)

-readonly

Open readonly connection to database (default is readonly).

-nofailsafe

Do not open in failsafe mode (default is failsafe)

-datadumper

Do a Data::Dumper dump of the object database.

-o file

Only in conjunction with -datadumper: use the specified file for output. Otherwise Data::Dumper output goes to STDOUT.

-versioning

Use RCS versioning for a Data::Dumper file.

rootdir

The root directory of the database (default is ., the current directory).

EXAMPLES

A sample crontab entry for making an hourly backup of the object database:

 0 * * * * we_dump -datadumper -versioning -outfile /path/to/dumpfile /path/to/we_data

To restore such a dump, the following steps should be done:

• Identify the wished dump version by using rlog and co -p -rversion.

• Extract this dump version, e.g.

          co -p -r1.78 dumpfile > dumpfile-1.78

• Recreate the object database. Assuming a common installation using MLDBM, DB_File and Data::Dumper, the following one-liner may be used:

      perl -MMLDBM=DB_File,Data::Dumper -MFcntl -e 'tie %db, "MLDBM", "objdb.db", O_RDWR|O_CREAT, 0644 or die $!; $ObjDB = do $ARGV[0]; %db = %$ObjDB' dumpfile-version

• Move the created objdb.db to the we_data directory and fix permissions.

AUTHOR

Slaven Rezic <eserte@users.sourceforge.net>