[Zope] RE: [Zope-dev] Converting databases

[Alexander Staubo]

Very, very cool. Best piece of news I received today.

We're in the process of setting up a brand new Linux-based Zope 2
server. If anything goes wrong in upgrading the database, I _will_ you
guys know. ;-)

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: zope-dev-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-dev-admin@zope.org]On Behalf
>Of michel@digicool.com
>Sent: 19. juni 1999 04:23
>To: zope-dev@zope.org
>Subject: [Zope-dev] Converting databases
>
>
>I hope I'm not jumping the gun here, but I tested the first round of
>Jim's database conversion script today.  The first run was not
>sucessful, due to the laxer nature of ZOSB2's transaction format.
>After scoping that bug, Jim fixed things so that my ZODB2 database
>converted cleanly into a ZODB3 one.
>
>The script can be found in the latest CVS in the utilities directory.
>The command is:
>
>python1.5.2 bbb.py -f input.database output.database
>
>We would like some people to test this against their ZODB2 databases,
>but PLEASE:
>
> - be careful.  Back up *all* of your data to a safe place before
> attempting it.
>
> - report any conversion bugs or tracebacks to the list and
>support@digicool.com.  We are interested in your experiences with the
>script.
>
> - we only recomment this for 2.0 alpha users who have a nice fat
> ZODB2 database they want to convert over.  This is *not* stable
> software.  This is the very first revision.  It will probably break
> for some people, we want those people to help us improve it, but
> please come into the experiment with the intention that something
> will go wrong, and *send in those bug reports* we do pay attention to
> them.
>
>Thanks!
>
>-Michel
>
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