[Zope] backing up zope files

[Abhilasha Chaudhary]

Abhilasha Chaudhary wrote:

> Thanks for the info. I downloaded the FSDump product and dumped my 
> files to the file system.
> But when I ftp the files back to the zope interface, they lose their 
> properties. Is there a
> way(other than PUT_factory) to ftp the dump so that the object 
> properties are not lost?
>
> Paul Winkler wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 05:30:10PM -0400, Abhilasha Chaudhary wrote:
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>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am trying to find out how I can back up all the zope files related 
>>> to a particular
>>> project on the file system. I want to able to store the zope code in 
>>> CVS. I use ftp
>>> to store the files from zope on the file system. But when I put back 
>>> the files in the
>>> Zope area using ftp, the properties of the files all get converted 
>>> to DTML and the
>>> application cannot be used. I know there is a utility called 
>>> "PUT_factory" that
>>> allows you to specify the zope object you want, but I think this 
>>> utility is not very
>>> useful when you want to convert to certain types of objects(e.g 
>>> ZSQLmethod).
>>> I want to find out if there is a more graceful way of preserving 
>>> zope object properties
>>> while backing up zope files to the file system?
>>>   
>>
>>
>> The FSDump product might help you.
>>
>> Or, just keep your code on the filesystem in the first place.
>> Google for using Filesystem Directory Views outside of CMF.
>>
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