Have you tried Massimo's new script? I've been unexpectedly busy in the last few days, but I hope to have time to complete wrapping that script in argparse this evening (or tomorrow) which will have just a few more options that I have found useful (ie. truncate, delete db, copy model, etc.). With or without argparse, its pretty sweet!
from his posting (May 23) " title: script to clone a database http://code.google.com/p/web2py/source/browse/scripts/cpdb.py Usage: python web2py.py -S app -M -N -R scripts/cpdb.py -A 'sqlite:// other_db.sqlite' It will copy all data from current db to other_db (sqlite or not) The -A argument can be any URI string for example 'mysql://username:password@localhost/ dbname' " hope it helps! Mart :) On May 30, 2:33 pm, pbreit <pbreitenb...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't understand the question. Do you want to share the same DB from two > different apps? > > I suppose you could copy the models and then set your DB connection strings > to point to the same DB. In one app set migrate=False. You might even be > able to symbolically link the models from one app to the other. > > The DAL can work standalone so you could put it in a module, Web2py's > site_packages or anywhere in your Python path. > > If you use it outside it's normal location, include "from gluon.dal import > *" at the top of your files and then you should be able to do all the same > things (db = DAL(..., db.define_table(...). > > You mentioned exporting which is quite > different.http://web2py.com/book/default/chapter/06?search=Exporting-and-Import... > > Might need to understand more completely what you are trying to do.
