At 13:07 09/09/99 , Stuart Woolford wrote:
Well, firstly I must say that Zope 2.0.0 is so far proving itself a wonderful system, quite refreshing in its ability to create stunning results from a bit of carefull work.
One thing I would like to know, is there a method of 'compressing' the ZODB3 database (Data.fs from memory) - ie: making it forget all the old undo versions held internally, and reduce to the minimum required contents for the system as it currently is?
Yup, just got to the Control Panel, click Databsae Management, fill in an age of objects you want to keep and click 'Pack'
Another idea I would love to see is a method of doing a minimum-content transfer from one system to another, ie: I have a running server (the main system) in one location, I have a slowish link to this, and run a copy of the zope system on my local devel machine to allow for fast changes. It would be great to be able to just transfer the minimum changes to the remove ZODB3 database through a net link, rather than compress, transfer, and uncompress the whole db.. I would think with all the versioning systems in place a process could be written to do this via the normal interfaces into the databases????
I believe that ZEO (Zope Enterprise Objects), a commercial product from Digital Creations does just such a thing. See Ken's email on the subject: http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/009880.html If you want a simple staging/production server setup, with only actual changes going over the line, you'll have to write something yourself.. We'd be eager to test your product. =) -- Martijn Pieters, Web Developer | Antraciet http://www.antraciet.nl | Tel: +31-35-7502100 Fax: +31-35-7502111 | mailto:mj@antraciet.nl http://www.antraciet.nl/~mj | PGP: http://wwwkeys.nl.pgp.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xA8A32149 ------------------------------------------