The bulk loader does indeed provide backup and restore functionality today. While the implementation is in Python it can talk to your Java server and the entities are shared between Java and Python.
On Jun 28, 4:46 pm, mscwd01 <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for your replying guys, it would be great if we could get an > official Google response to update us on this as well though! > > I'll definitely have a look at the Bulk Loader in the meantime... > > On Jun 28, 1:52 pm, Mike Dillon <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Mscwd01, > > > I'm not a google employee, but I have had success backing up our > > datastore and then restoring our datastore with > > the bulkloader utility. Currently the bulkloader is in the python sdk, > > so all you need to do is download that and then > > youll be able to do backups and restore from those backups. Check out > > the literature on the app engine, and try > > a couple searches to get your bearings. Nick Johnson has commented or > > written every search result that comes > > back when I was researching this a couple of weeks back, and there is > > also an I/O video on the bulkloader. > > > Make sure you read some of the fine print, i.e. one caveat is that you > > must have had your datastore populated for > > at least 12 hours which is the amount of time it takes for the > > statistics info to be built. That what the bulkloader > > works off of to do its datastore dump. > > > - Mike > > > On Jun 28, 7:16 am, mscwd01 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hey Google Employees, > > > > There has been a backup/restore facility on the roadmap for a while > > > now. Can you let us know if and when we may get an in-built tool that > > > will allow us to easily save the contents of the datastore to our > > > local machines and restore it if needs be? > > > > In the meantime, what is the preferred solution to backup/restore our > > > Java based apps? > > > > Thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine for Java" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en.
