Before going public, I need to be practiced in backing up and re-installing my database, in it's entirety. The AIP packager seems to be my best method to preserve everything, including Communities and E-Person users. It is easy to export to a AIP zip archive and FTP easily downloads it.
I have a strange problem, when installing it to another machine. I have a local Ubuntu 18.04 server on my local network at home. I have a working, virgin DSpace install and database (xmlui default). I attempt to install my AIP with the following command: ./dspace packager -r -a -k -t AIP -e [email protected] -i 123456789/0 -o skipIfParentMissing=true /home/backup/sitewide-aip.zip This completes after ingesting for several hours. I check my site – Wow, all the communities are there. Good.... oh.. *WAIT* : *Where are the items?* Any search returns nothing and there is no “recently added” items listed anywhere. Okay – I run command line database utilities, ./dspace database index-discovery, ./dspace database repair, and ./dspace filter-media. *Great! It now all appears and works fine … UNTIL* I go to bed, and try to access it again in the morning.* All gone*. It is back to the same condition and problem I first encountered. The system is behind my firewall, so nobody has been tampering. I have attempted to access it with two other machines within my network – same results. If I try and address a specific URI to an item, that works fine (thumbnail and all). The system has reverted to where it was before, all the communities (and their introductions) and collections will be listed, but no items are listed, browse-able, or searchable. Sorry this post is long, but I am stumped. *Does anybody know where to look for the problem*? *Why does my database items “go away” some hours after being “fixed”*? -- All messages to this mailing list should adhere to the DuraSpace Code of Conduct: https://duraspace.org/about/policies/code-of-conduct/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dspace-community/69b20fa9-b802-47c8-b596-00c39c67814fo%40googlegroups.com.
