[Zope] Re: how to restore a copied instance.

[J Cameron Cooper]

Tudor Gabriel wrote:
> hi, i needed to reinstall my zope site on another computer so i 
> installed (in debian) plone-site using aptitude ... it automatically 
> makes a new instance and starts the server.
> 
> after that i 
> stopped the server ... and copied my site (instance folder) from the other computer over this one. 
> 
> 
> when i start /etc/init.d/zope2.9 start ... it doesn't complain , but i 
> can't open the site. (same instance names, same port number )

Use 'zopectl fg' to run it in the foreground and see what errors you get.

> i tryied another aproach ... copied back the default installed instance 
> ... and only overwritten the var folder with the data from the original 
> site.
> 
> this way i hoped that Data.fs which contained all my objects ... will 
> automatically become visible.
> 
> it doesn't work this way either, it only sees the default objects, i can 
> access the site ... but all my objects are not visible.

It's generally much more helpful if you say exactly what is not 
"visible" -- and where. As is, this is pretty much information-free.

> grep shows that the names of the objects & folders are still in Data.fs 
> ... so they exist ... i think i missed one configuration somewhere ... 
> to make the folders added by me visible.
> 
> do you know how can i achieve that?

You may be missing a Product. Visit the Zope Control Panel and look for 
a "broken box".

Alternately, are there broken object icons in the ZMI for those objects 
which are not "visible"?

         --jcc

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