Hi Vera, Personnaly I would have tried to use the REST API of geoserver to migrate the content between the 2 instances.
Regards Alexandre Le lun. 19 avr. 2021 à 23:48, Vera Green <vera.green...@gmail.com> a écrit : > Hello, > > I have recently had the interesting experience of not migrating an old > geoserver to a new instance but *merging *an old GeoServer with another, > newer already active Geoserver that had some duplication with the old > GeoServer. > > I was able to transfer all the styles by removing the workspace reference > > <#m_793308323945472790_styles>Styles > > *For styles OUTSIDE of any workspace* we manually delete all of the > styles that we do not want. Then we synch the files > > cd /mnt/tmp/geoserver/tran/styles/rm tmp*rm *.bakrsync -a -v > --ignore-existing /mnt/tmp/geoserver/tran/styles/* > /mnt/geoserver/data/styles/.systemctl restart tomcat > > *For workspace specific styles* > > we need to remove the reference to the workspace from the xml file. > > cd /mnt/tmp/geoserver/tran/workspaces/workspace_name/stylesrm tmp*rm *.baksed > -i '/<workspace>/,/<\/workspace>/d' *.xml > > (PS yes I did read the many warnings about NOT using a regex with sed on xml > files. . . . but it worked ;-) > cd /mnt/geoserver/data/stylestar -cvpzf styles_bk.tar.gz *rsync -a -v > --ignore-existing /mnt/tmp/geoserver/tran/workspaces/workspace_name/styles/* > .systemctl restart tomcat > > LayersUnfortunately I was not able to transfer our 400 layers. I tried > the import extension and unfortunately I got an error with this tool (email > to follow). > The reason I was not able to transfer the layers was because the workspace > and store ID's saved in the layer xml files were of course not matching my > new instance. The styles should have been alright. Because we needed to > "just get it done" we manually transferred the layers. However, I am > wondering if there are other tools or other methods I should have used? > not sure if replacing everything with scripts is an approach I should > explore, even though the structure of the data is very transparent (I love > geoserver) > > In hindsight (now that it is no longer 2 am) I should have perhaps done > something like this: > > *To Try Next Time* Prior to backing up the GeoServer rename all of the > work spaces and stores to indicate the server name > > Try merging all of these: > > - workspaces > - stores > - styles (see below) > - then finally layers > > Theoretically if we migrate all of these then the layers should work > because the workspace, store, and style ID's will exist in the new instance. > > I did find this command supper useful since there was some duplication > between the two GeoServers: > rsync -a -v --ignore-existing src dst > > Your thoughts appreciated, for next time . . . > > Vera > > _______________________________________________ > Geoserver-users mailing list > > Please make sure you read the following two resources before posting to > this list: > - Earning your support instead of buying it, but Ian Turton: > http://www.ianturton.com/talks/foss4g.html#/ > - The GeoServer user list posting guidelines: > http://geoserver.org/comm/userlist-guidelines.html > > If you want to request a feature or an improvement, also see this: > https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/wiki/Successfully-requesting-and-integrating-new-features-and-improvements-in-GeoServer > > > Geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users >
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