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I'd like to move data.fs from \Program Files\Zope\var\data.fs to another location.

I tried \Program Files\Zope\start.bat -p "c:\new\location\data.fs" , no good.

Unless you severely hack the source code, the best you can do is set the environment variable INSTANCE_HOME to its new location. So, if you set INSTANCE_HOME to c:\new\location, you'd need to move everything in \Program Files\Zope\var (including the var directory itself) to c:\new\location. No....why not just create a shortcut? (Or, in Linux land, a soft link...) That way you can move your Data.fs anywhere you want, like a new disk that has more space. You move your data.fs to where ever, then create a shortcut, put the shortcut to where the data.fs originally is placed by zope, rename "shortcut to data.fs" to "data.fs", and voila, you're all done. No hacking up anything necessary. :-)

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At startup Zope looks for a file called custom_zodb.py which can contain a definition of an alternative storage. It is usually used to specify ZEO, bsddbStorage.Full, etc, but it can also be used to specify a FileStorage in a different directory.

I have been unable to find the syntax for this definition. if I copy the contents of var to c:\new\location\var what should I put in custom_zodb.py ? Thanks, Kent

Am Sam, 2002-08-24 um 05.18 schrieb Russell Hires:

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No....why not just create a shortcut?

No, Windows shortcuts dont work that way.

Sure they do. I have a few Access databases at work that I do that very thing. Works just fine... Ever considered, that Access has extra code to deal with ShortCuts? Zope is portable software ;) True...that could be a problem. You mean pack like version of zope? Or pack like database type pack? Pack like Pack Database in ControlPanel ;)

Andreas

Am Sam, 2002-08-24 um 12.39 schrieb Oliver Bleutgen:

But NTFS has hardlinks. Granted I didn't know before recently, but you can learn about their existance here: http://www.atstake.com/research/advisories/2002/a081602-1.txt

Yeah, it's a security advisory ;-). Well, NTFS also has substreams (kind of Macish). And yes, because it's mostly unused, it's also a security nightmare :)

Andreas