Sorry, it seems I have posted this here by mistake. I wanted to send it to dspace-tech.
Please, disregard it! Periklis On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 12:51 PM, Periklis Ntanasis <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am interested in fully replicating a DSpace installation to a remote > server. The replication has to happen automatically and in a regular basis > (i.e. daily). I need to replicate everything (users, authorizations, > communities, collections.. etc.). The remote DSpace will be used only for > reading data. > > As far as I understand, harvesting works on collection level and doesn't > transfer the authorizations and users. So this doesn't seem as a viable > option. > > Another other option is maybe making an AIP backup and restoring it to the > remote server. This has been mentioned in the past to a similar thread: > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/dspace- > community/replication|sort:date/dspace-community/farxKx93ERQ/b9epWRlzBgAJ > > However, I find this option not practical because, as far as I understand, > exporting an AIP backup requires similar space to the original's DSpace > asset store and database. In my particular case, I estimate having so much > available space may be an issue. > > Also, this means that I should send every time all the exported data to > the remote server and this seems like a great waste of bandwidth. Moreover, > in this particular case the asset store is about 750GB and sending so much > data to the remote machine will take ages. > > I guess, what I need is making an AIP backup that should contain only the > changes since the last time I backed up the data (something like > incremental backup). > > Is this somehow possible? > > The other approach that I am considering is exporting a dump of the > local's machine database, rsyncing the asset store to the remote server and > importing the updated database to the remote's machine database. > > Do you think that this approach could work? > > Any suggestion or idea is more than welcome! > > Thank you, > Periklis > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "DSpace Community" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/dspace-community. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/dspace-community. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
