[Zope] Packing data.fs programmatically

[Chris Withers]

Reinoud van Leeuwen wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 11:38:34AM +0000, Jonathan Cleaver wrote:
>> I am using the following module to pack my data.fs programmatically 
>> before a backup is made. This was largely taken out of the Zopelabs 
>> cookbook - thanks!
> 
> I do it though the webinterface with a wget from the crontab:
> 
> @daily cd /some_path/zeo_server/var && \
>        cp Data.fs Data.fs.pre_pack_backup && \
>        /usr/local/bin/wget \
>       'http://myzopeserver/Control_Panel/Database/manage_pack?days:float=0'\
>        --http-user=special_user \
>        --http-passwd='some_password' \
>        --spider &&\ 
>        cp Data.fs Data.fs.post_pack_backup

Oh, ouch ouch bad fragile pain failure suffering...

URL whacking is evil and must be punished...

Chris

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