Andrea,
I also like to see this functionality. +1 if anyone is keeping track.
Brett
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Andrea Aime
<[email protected]>wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Morgen Bullock Healy
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> All-****
>>
>> We are running Geoserver 2.1 on a virtual machine to support multiple
>> different websites, all of which have different data. So, we have many
>> layers, styles, layer groups, etc with a very careful naming convention to
>> keep track of which ones belong to which website. ****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> In some cases we want to copy a subset of layers, layer groups, and styles
>> (i.e. everything for one of the sites) from one geoserver instance to
>> another. Is there a quick way to do this without having to re-publish all
>> layers, re-assign all styles, and re-build all layer groups? Since we want
>> to just copy a subset, simply copying the entire data_dir is not going to
>> work.****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Can we safely copy certain files and folders from data_dir\workspaces,
>> data_dir\layergroups and data_dir\styles from one machine to another,
>> restart, and expect to see everything as we want it on the 2nd machine?
>> We’ve tried this with mixed results. Sometimes Geoserver throws errors on
>> restart. Are there any tricks to this?****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Any advice or ideas would be much appreciated.
>>
>
> What you're doing _should_ work, not sure what errors might arise.
>
> It would certainly be nice to have config import/export abilities from the
> GUI, select workspace/layers/styles
> from one server, download a zip file with everything, upload on the other,
> would make for a popular
> extension module.
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
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