[Building Sakai] archiving classes

[Steve Swinsburg]

Hi Brett,

In trunk we have some better functionality for handling site archives:
https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-25867

It doesn't allow non admins to do it though, but that could be handled
easily enough via an extension to Site Info. The issue is the download of
the archives since it requires filesystem access, however this patch above
solves that, so a simple extension to add the required UI for maintainers
of a site would be feasible.

One thing to note is that archives are a copy of *most* of the tools of the
site, and that deleting the site leaves all content and records behind.
There has been some work on hard delete for content (since records don't
take up much disk but binary files do) which could be extended to other
tools:
https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-26217

regards,
Steve


On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 10:16 PM, Brett Parker <brparke1 at wsc.edu> wrote:

>  Greetings,
>
> We have been using Sakai for many years and looking for a way to
> save/archive classes so we can look to reduce the size of the database.  We
> are currently running 2.9 maintenance branch.  I see with Administrator
> access there is a tool for this.  I would prefer to put this ability in the
> hands of our faculty so they can choose which of their classes they want to
> save.  Is there anything out there or anyone done anything to provide this
> functionality to the instructors?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Brett
>
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