On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 9:38 PM, Frédéric Fortier < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > We've been using owncloud (7) for a student group for the past year and > the results have been mostly pleasing. However, due to some bug in an > upgrade a while back (#12475, #13429 and the like), plus maybe some steps > taken to try to fix them that more or less worked, our group shares are > halfway broken, ie. they work as is, but "special things" happen if we try > to modify them. > > Anyways, we're planning to upgrade (soon) to 8.1 and change our auth/group > system (from owncloud to LDAP). So, while we're at it, I'd really like to > get a clean slate for pretty much everything (including shares which I'd > just redo) except the data. > > So, on a scale of it's a good idea to it's a really bad idea, how feasible > would it be to just keep the data (ie. in owncloud/data), scrap the old > database and start anew, knowing that: > - Individual users don't own anything, everything is owned by a single > account and then folders are shared to groups of users (so it's just a > matter of redoing shares) > - I can afford some downtime for this > - I don't care if I loose complimentary db data such as app data, old > versions, shared links, etc. > > I would expect it to be relatively simple, ie. just having the data there > and finding a way to run the indexer on this data so that it can populate > the db correctly, but if that's not possible (is there a script already > present for that?) I could also "manually" reupload everything. Am I > missing something? > > Finally, how would the desktop client react to such a thing? I would guess > that it would find that the etags have changed and just redownload > everything from the server? Is that correct? > > Thanks for your time, > > Frédéric Fortier > _______________________________________________ > User mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.owncloud.org/mailman/listinfo/user >
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