[Building Sakai] Site Archiving

[Tom Hall]

Hi Adrian

Thanks for the info.

I agree about the shallow delete in general, but once a course is really 
finished with we want to archive it and then remove it completely.

Tom


On 11/25/2010 10:47 AM, Adrian Fish wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>
>> Good day everyone
>>
>> I am shortly going to start working on an approach to archive our Sakai
>> sites.  Based on the testing and web searching I have done so far, I
>> have some questions.
>>
>> 1) From what I can tell the Site Archive tool does not archive all of
>> the data for all of the tools in a site (in particular Gradebook and
>> SiteStats, two favorites of our instructors).  Is there a way to
>> configure the Site Archive tool to archive all of the tools in a site?
> Whether a tool can be archived or not depends on whether the tool
> implements certain interfaces, EntityProducer being the main one if I
> remember correctly. That's why only the data from certain tools and not
> others ends up in the XML dump.
>> 2)  Has anyone come up with a way to do cross version restores (i.e.
>> archive a site from Sakai 2.5 and restore it in 2.6, 2.7 or later)?
> Again, this will vary from tool to tool. If the tool's DB is similar
> across versions and the api is consistent then the archives will
> probably be portable.
>> 3) Is there a way to delete a site completely using an API?  I have
>> noticed that deleting a site leaves some data behind.
> I don't think so, but I may be wrong. I reckon the shallow delete is a
> nice safety net, personally.
>> Thanks
>>
>> Tom
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> Hope some of that helps, bit negative really :(
>
> Cheers,
>
> Adrian.
>