Before starting to clone BASE you could try to reset list settings with File -> Reset list settings ... select memory and database in the pop-up.
BASE stores uploaded or generated files as files in the filesystem. The database keep tracks of file locations. There is no information in files needed for having a consitent database, but of course removing files may upset BASE since a file will be missing somewhere. Cloning a BASE installation? Well there is no instruction for this. I simply do a sequence of commands on my macbook and hope the files generated will allow me to create a copy of my BASE server. It is a bit crude since I make a snapshot of all mysql dbs not only BASE dbs, but I only run BASE on my machine: #!/bin/sh BASE2TGZ=/tmp/base2.tgz MYSQL5TGZ=/tmp/mysql5.tgz echo Stopping tomcat tomcatstop mysqlctl stop echo Backing up basefiles at /path/to/base2 cd /path/to/base2 tar zcf $BASE2TGZ base2 echo Backing up /path/to/db/mysql5 cd /path/to/db sudo -u root tar zcf $MYSQL5TGZ mysql5 mysqlctl start echo Starting tomcat tomcatstart echo Done. Backup files are located in /tmp ls -lsh $BASE2TGZ $MYSQL5TGZ You of course need to keep a safe copy of base.config and other configuration files from your BASE installation. I haven't tested a restore in a long time ... haven't had the need. So you better test it before you trust it. Cheers, Jari Olivier Lefevre wrote: > Are there instructions and/or scripts anywhere to assist with the > cloning of a BASE2 instance or is it a use-your-brain-dude kind of > thing? My problem is that I got a dump of a MySQL db but nothing > else and there seem to be a lot of "dangling links" manifesting > themselves in red-band error messages here and there, e.g., "Item > not found: RawDataType[id=blah]". That is not surprising since > BASE seems to hold a lot of stuff in files on disk rather than > in the db but it's unclear how to go about fixing that if you > are not familiar with BASE. It would be nice if there was a > fool-proof, automated procedure for cloning a BASE2 instance. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial > Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited > royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing > server and web deployment. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects > _______________________________________________ > The BASE general discussion mailing list > [email protected] > unsubscribe: send a mail with subject "unsubscribe" to > [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ The BASE general discussion mailing list [email protected] unsubscribe: send a mail with subject "unsubscribe" to [email protected]
