[Building Sakai] Web service or command line tool for site archiving

[Steve Swinsburg]

Thanks Steve, I'll whip something up.

cheers.


On 15/10/2009, at 10:17 AM, Steven Githens wrote:

> Steve Swinsburg wrote:
>> Hi Steve,
>>
>> Does the Sash command call the ArchiveService methods? If so I'd  
>> like to wrap this into an Axis webservice, can you point me in the  
>> right direction for where I should start digging through code?
>
> It does.  The source of the command is here:
>
> https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/sakaiscript/sash/trunk/sash-api-shared/src/java/sash/script/bin/sitearchive.py
>
> Pretty straight forward calls to  
> org.sakaiproject.archive.api.ArchiveService
>
> I doubt it's a publicly usable component (ie. checks permissions  
> based on your threads session) so you'll probably want to check for  
> isSuperUser.
>
> -s
>
>>
>> cheers,
>> Steve
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 15/10/2009, at 3:54 AM, Steven Githens wrote:
>>
>>> There is a site archive command for Sash.   I'm still a bit sketchy
>>> about people installing it on anything more than a dev box, but I'm
>>> hoping to put in an IP filter, and default command whitelist for a  
>>> soon
>>> tag, which should make it a bit more safe to install on things.
>>>
>>> The usage text at the command line:
>>>
>>> [snip]
>>> admin: sitearchive
>>>
>>> Import and Export Site Data
>>>
>>> sitearchive export siteid [siteid..]
>>> Export any number of site ids provided on the command line. For  
>>> Sakai 2.5
>>> these archive files are going to be created in tomcat/sakai/archive.
>>> Note
>>> however, this directory is configurable, so the destination may be
>>> different
>>> on your system.
>>>
>>> sitearchive import archiveurl siteid
>>> Import an archive into a site. The archiveurl should be the name of
>>> directory
>>> containing the archive in tomcat/sakai/archive (or other directory  
>>> if
>>> your
>>> local customization is different
>>>
>>>
>>> admin:
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>> ~steve
>>>
>>> Tom Hall wrote:
>>>> Hi Everyone
>>>>
>>>> Can anyone point me in the right direction for a web service or  
>>>> command
>>>> line program that can be used to perform site archiving?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> Tom
>>>>
>>>>
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