> Am 12.06.19 um 19:18 schrieb André Rodier (an...@rodier.me): > > Hello, wonderful SOGo team, > > > > I need a way to export and import an address book, and maybe a > > calendar, from the command line. > > > > I am interested even if your answer is partial, for instance just the > > export. The bare minimum would be exporting an address book in a text > > file, in any appropriate format. > > > > I am happy to write SQL as well if this is necessary, although I would > > prefer use the http protocol. > > > > Also, can I restore, still using the command line, the user's data from > > a SOGo backup, or the whole database is the way to go. > > > > Thanks a lot for your hard work, this is great, and thanks to you and > > Debian, my project is taking shape. > > > > Thanks a lot for your hard work and your insights. > > On Wed, 2019-06-12 at 21:43 +0200, Anselm Martin Hoffmeister wrote: > Hallo André, > > I guess that CALDAV is the way to go (via HTTPS, preferrably). There are > php snippets that demonstrate Web DAV accesses, for example, so you > could "roll your own", for both data read and write, and have full > flexibility to access single items, while keeping sogo happy with > synchronizing changed data to whichever user/program/device needs it. > For mere backups though, the SQL database dump would be the obvious choice. > > I admit that for a certain purpose I was a bit lazy and used a database > dump: We need a plain csv file of phone number and associated names for > our PABX to display caller names. There is some script that I will not > disclose (as it is not pretty at all), but it is fed with the output of > > echo "SELECT c_content FROM sogoanshoffm00112288562" | mysql -u > sogodbuser thesogodb | parsevcardscript > > where the table name has been hand-picked, obviously, and the mysql uses > an options file (which contains the password in this case). > > The data is - you may have guesses - in vcard format, which to me seems > like the shabby brother of an LDAP record - it seems to have been kind > of a standard for some time, or rather, a set of "we use it like this" > that are mostly compatible. Don't trust much on any application to > behave, and with a large range of software and devices accessing your > sogo, you will for example have several TEL;TYPE= and EMAIL;TYPE= > variants that not every program uses in the same way. YMMV. > > For restoring the complete dataset, I had to do this with several SOGo > instances a while back when changing hardware, and on that occasion > doing a full software install instead of just moving the root partition. > Just shutting down sogo, exporting the database, importing on the new > server and firing up sogo there with the mostly identical config file > worked as expected. > > Best regards > Anselm
Hello Anselm, Thanks for your help. The final purpose is to backup and restore SOGo from scratch, so maybe I will end up restoring the whole database. Nothing in the method above seems appropriate for me. Since I want to do the backup on the local machine, http or https is not very relevant. What is more, however, is that I need some "special" account, with read access to all user's address books and calendars, and I did not find anything close to this in the documentation. Thanks, André -- André Rodier HomeBox: https://github.com/progmaticltd/homebox -- users@sogo.nu https://inverse.ca/sogo/lists
