[Zope] Can I relocate data.fs?

[Toby Dickenson]

On Friday 23 Aug 2002 2:50 pm, Russell Hires wrote:
> On Friday 23 August 2002 00:40 am, you wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 07:09:35PM -0500,  wrote:
> > > 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 s=
et
> > 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.

At startup Zope looks for a file called custom_zodb.py which can contain =
a=20
definition of an alternative storage. It is usually used to specify ZEO,=20
bsddbStorage.Full, etc, but it can also be used to specify a FileStorage =
in a=20
different directory.

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

No, Windows shortcuts dont work that way.

> (Or, in Linux land, a soft link...)

A link would work until the next pack.  The packed file would get created=
 in=20
the original location.