[daisy] Error while restoring backup

[Bruno Dumon]

Hi,

On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 13:51 +0200, Christian Weigel wrote:
> Hi Karel,
> 
> this is sadly not the case :-(
> 
> I had to extract the data manually from the backup now. But this can't be the 
> solution for the future.

Instructions for restoring a backup are at the bottom of this page:
http://cocoondev.org/daisydocs-2_2/admin/256-cd.html

They're not very detailed (anyone is welcome to improve) but that's the
way it should be done. More specifically, you should not install Daisy
using the installer, as this will initialize a new repository and wiki,
which will conflict (I think) with the data to be restored.

> 
> Does anyone know if it's easily possible to restore backups from Version 2.1 
> to a 2.2 installation, or should one better go for a Export import solution?

To go from 2.1 to 2.2, you should go for the upgrade procedure, not the
backup or import/export. Upgrading is not yet supported by the Windows
installer AFAIK, you should follow the manual instructions.

> 
> Talking about import and export it is not fully clear to me (from reading the 
> documentation) what the pros and cons of each individual way are. Does anyone 
> have a common practice example where to use which tool?

Import/export and backup are two different things.

Backup works on the database/filesystem level and restores a Daisy
installation like it was before.

Import/export is intended to move documents between repositories, and
works in pretty much the same way as you would enter them through the
wiki. It doesn't preserve version history, modification time and
modifier, it doesn't transfer users or ACL, site configuration, skins,
etc.

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