Thanks for replying Ikai. I assumed the "Datastore dump and restore facility" on the roadmap was referring to an import/export tool - a way for us to download the contents of the datastore for safekeeping and restoring it if needs be? Is this something different?
Lastly, I would consider an import/export tool to be extremely useful if not critical to most applications, surely there has been some plans to offer one? On Jun 30, 7:57 pm, "Ikai L (Google)" <[email protected]> wrote: > A web-based import/export tool is and was not ever on our roadmap: > > http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/roadmap.html > > The roadmap is not an all-inclusive list of features we plan to build, but > rather, a list of features we have high confidence will ship in the upcoming > 6 month timeframe. > > You are absolutely welcome to build an open source web based import/export > tool for App Engine. Once you have done this, submit a request and we will > add it to the Open Source projects page: > > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine/web/google-app-engine... > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 8:51 AM, mscwd01 <[email protected]> wrote: > > Can I attempt to get the attention of a Google employee to ask "When > > can we expect an in-built web based import/export tool for the GAE?" > > > Thanks :P > > > On Jun 30, 11:04 am, François Masurel <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I dont think the bulkloader is really convenient for doing daily > > > datastore backups of several gigabytes, and I'm not talking about > > > exploding quotas. > > > > I would rather prefer some kind of snapshot mechanism on datastore > > > side. > > > > François > > > > On 29 juin, 20:40, Matthew Blain <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > 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]<google-appengine-java%2B > > [email protected]> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en. > > -- > Ikai Lan > Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine > Blog:http://googleappengine.blogspot.com > Twitter:http://twitter.com/app_engine > Reddit:http://www.reddit.com/r/appengine -- 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.
