[Building Sakai] Investigating site exports from Sakai 2

[Speelmon, Lance Day]

Agreed - I understand and appreciate the need for site backups. However, I personally am focused on migration and from a migration perspective the need for a full backup format will come late in the project lifecycle... And the primary use case as it has been expressed is moving Project sites from 2->3.  L


Lance Speelmon
Scholarly Technologist

On Oct 12, 2009, at 9:03 AM, csev wrote:

> I agree with all that - I was just reacting to your "Use  the blocker,  
> Luke" statement.  Like the force, the blocker has two sides to it.
> 
> /Chuck
> 
> On Oct 12, 2009, at 7:52 AM, Steve Swinsburg wrote:
> 
>> I think the flipside to the 'once schools are ready they will fix  
>> archive' argument is that once schools are ready to move on, they  
>> may see there is no good full export, or some other product/vendor  
>> will tell them that the export is no good, and they may consider  
>> moving away from Sakai altogether. That being said, they still need  
>> to get their content out, but 'vendor lock-in' isn't a good selling  
>> point ;)
>> 
>> I know a lot of institutions that have Sakai are just consumers and  
>> see Sakai to be a vendor type product, they have no resources to  
>> devote to Sakai except to keep it running, so hope someone else will  
>> do it for them and it will be 'in the next release'.
> 
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