[Zope] Moving content from Zope 1.x to 2.x

[Michel Pelletier]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Juerg Schulthess [mailto:juerg_schulthess@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 1999 10:46 AM
> To: zope@zope.org
> Subject: [Zope] Moving content from Zope 1.x to 2.x
> 
> 
> Hi,
> I've been watching Zope since it went Open Source and I'm absolutely
> fascinated by the possibilities. Great software. Who knows, I might
> be able to contribute to the comunity sometime...
> 
> Still, there's problems here and there:
> I have two zope installations running. One that I use for a normal
> web site and a cvs version (i.e. 2.x) for testing. The former runs
> Zope 2.10.2. I'm currently trying to find a way to copy the contents
> to the new Zope system. Exporting from the "older" Zope to a *.bbe
> file is no problem. If the "new" Zope (ZServer, I believe) is started
> with the -2 switch (python z2.py -2), I can import the content from
> the *.bbe file and work with it. But the contents are only visible in
> Zope if Zope is started with the -2 switch. In ZODB3 mode the
> contents are not visible. Am I doing something wrong here?
> Is there a way to copy content from a ZODB2 to a ZODB3 system?
> 

Use the conversion script utilities/bbb.py that comes with Zope 2b.  Run
it with no arguments to get a list of arguments and usage.  It can both
convert a whole ZODB2 database and a ZODB2 .bbe export database to ZODB3
format.

-Michel

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