[Zope] backing up zope files

[Paul Winkler]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 05:30:10PM -0400, Abhilasha Chaudhary wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to find out how I can back up all the zope files related to 
> a particular
> project on the file system. I want to able to store the zope code in 
> CVS. I use ftp
> to store the files from zope on the file system. But when I put back the 
> files in the
> Zope area using ftp, the properties of the files all get converted to 
> DTML and the
> application cannot be used. I know there is a utility called 
> "PUT_factory" that
> allows you to specify the zope object you want, but I think this utility 
> is not very
> useful when you want to convert to certain types of objects(e.g 
> ZSQLmethod).
> I want to find out if there is a more graceful way of preserving zope 
> object properties
> while backing up zope files to the file system?

The FSDump product might help you.

Or, just keep your code on the filesystem in the first place.
Google for using Filesystem Directory Views outside of CMF.
 
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Paul Winkler
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