[Building Sakai] Quota not transferred when duplicating site

[Raad Al-Rawi]

+1 seems like a reasonable solution.

R

On 01-Jul-11 18:33, Mathieu Plourde wrote:
> See https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-20797 for a proposal to
> change the Duplicate site process and add an option for the site quota.
> WDYT?
>
> Mathieu
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> On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 1:05 PM, David Horwitz <david.horwitz at uct.ac.za
> <mailto:david.horwitz at uct.ac.za>> wrote:
>
>     __
>     This is probably a side afect of a change to content Hosting to
>     check quota when files are added - to stop the upload of files
>     bigger than the available quota.
>
>     Not sure how we can fix it both ways ...
>
>     D
>
>
>     On 07/01/2011 06:31 PM, Mathieu Plourde wrote:
>>     Hi Adrian,
>>
>>     At Delaware, we prefer the fact that the quota doesn't transfer.
>>     We have some sites that are over the threshold, but never had
>>     issues duplicating them. Resources simply disallow any attempt to
>>     add new content until an admin changes the quota.
>>
>>     This prevents a user from duplicating a site with special
>>     permissions and get more space for all his/her sites from the get-go.
>>
>>     But an option in Duplicate site would be nice (a checkbox that
>>     says "Retain special quota and permissions", for instance?). The
>>     same could apply to the HTML execution permission at the root level.
>>
>>     Mathieu
>>     ==================================
>>     Mathieu Plourde, MBA
>>     Project Leader, LMS/Educational Technologist
>>     IT Client Support & Services
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>>     Office: 302-831-4060
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>>
>>
>>     On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Adrian Fish
>>     <a.fish at lancaster.ac.uk <mailto:a.fish at lancaster.ac.uk>> wrote:
>>
>>         When a site is duplicated, on 2.8.x the resources quota is not
>>         brought
>>         across. So, if the source site has a big quota set and a lot of
>>         resources the transfer can fail with an over quota error.
>>         Anybody else
>>         seen this?
>>
>>         The nearest JIRA I could find was this ...
>>
>>         https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/KNL-379
>>
>>         Cheers,
>>         Adrian.
>>
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