Lets assume that I have a "properly" written AppEngine application (writes to the datastore are wrapped into transactions, tasks are put in the task queue and retried, etc) and I want to make a "consistent" backup (ie. I don't want half-committed transactions in the backup). The documentation [1] suggests disabling writes and running a backup from the datastore admin, which sounds sensible but fails because the backup map-reduce job itself needs to write to the datastore. Any other suggestions?
On a related note, the backup is just a dump in protobuff format. I can create a hacky python script to extract the data, but is there a recommended/supported way to transform it into something like JSON or CSV? Attila [1] https://cloud.google.com/datastore/docs/console/datastore-backing-up-restoring -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/2629485a-ccbc-4705-aeaa-5008964220f6%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
