[Zope] Newbie question: can the ZODB be moved? On a different Server or HDD?

[Shane McCombs]

Hey Chris
Why WinDoze? My boss is a MS Fanatic? :-( I can only work with what I am
given. I am lucky to be trying an Open Source product!

I have looked at LocalFS... that was my first thought.
Unfortunately even though I have a few years at application programming,
Python and the Concepts of Web Programming are completely new to me. I
am finding myself in an awkward position. 

After reading everything I could get my hands on I simply could not
figure out how to get going with it. It appears to me that most of the
info on the net assumes a more basic level of knowledge than I possess
at the moment.

The LocalFS would be perfect for our needs.

No. There were no error msg. Zope would not start. I thought it might
have something to do with the line that said something about "at least
one DB must be mounted at / for zope to start".

Thanks for your Help - Shane

Shane McCombs
Innovation Developer
Raymond Building Supply Corp.
239.478.6284


-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Withers [mailto:chris at simplistix.co.uk] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 2:37 AM
To: Shane McCombs; zope at zope.org
Subject: Re: [Zope] Newbie question: can the ZODB be moved? On a
different Server or HDD?

(please keep replied CC'ing the list)

Shane McCombs wrote:

> I am working on a Windows Machine. 

Why? ;-)

> The reason for this is that we expect the DB to grow quite large. It
> will be holding PDF's.

Interesting. Have you looked at something like LocalFS so the PDF's
themselves 
aren't stored in ZODB? Mindyou, can't see any problems with the way you
ARE 
doing things...

> 			%define RBSC Z:\zodb 
<snip>
> <zodb_db main>
>     # Main FileStorage database
>     <filestorage>
>       path $RBSC/Data.fs    <--------------------------------------
Here
>     </filestorage>
>     mount-point /
> </zodb_db>

I'd try path $RBSC\Data.fs, but what happened when you tried the above?
Did you get any error messages?

Chris

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