On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Alexander Klimetschek <[email protected]> wrote: > The import/export XML methods are part of the JCR spec, so we cannot > easily change their well-defined behavior. Instead, to support large > dumps or backups, we should define an API at a lower level, that also > ignores type and constraint checking to improve speed (if you know > your dump is valid), like it is possible in many RDBMS. I mean JCR aware import/export, data could be moved from one repository to another as a whole or partial, their back end persistent manager could be different.
Of course, backup/restore is another story and is much more fast on RDBMS level :) -Guo
