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[EP-tech] Re: Bulk export/import

Ah, so that’s not a standard field - I came to the Uni after a lot of this
work was done so I’m still trying to figure out which fields are bespoke
and which are not. In a way I’m trying to avoid bringing bespoke things
across with me but I think it’s clear to me now that our data simply will
not fit a vanilla ePrints. Now I need to start a softly softly approach...

On 02/07/2015 15:20, "eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk on behalf of
George Mamalakis" <eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk on behalf of
mamalos@eng.auth.gr> wrote:

>It seems that on your previous system you had a field called "owner"
>that doesn't exist in your new EPrints installation.
>
>Try to see how you have defined this field and copy your configuration
>to your new EPrints installation. It'll probably be defined in:
>
>./archives/archname/cfg/cfg.d/eprint_fields.pl
>
>or in some other -custom- configuration file in
>./archives/archname/cfg/cfg.d/.
>
>If it's not present in eprint_fields.pl, grep in the configuration folder.
>
>Don't forget to reload your repository of your new installation after
>installing the field (you'll probably also need to add phrases for your
>new field, but that's another discussion).
>
>On 02/07/2015 05:03 μμ, Andrew Beeken wrote:
>> Thanks for the advice here; I’m not looking at files for the moment as
>>we have far too many on the server and my little local Virtual Box would
>>crumple under their weight!
>>
>> Okay, so I did an export from the admin on our live box to EP3 XML and
>>tried to import this on my Virtual Box – unfortunately this fails at the
>>first hurdle with the following errors:
>>
>> Invalid XML element: owner
>>
>> Unhandled exception in Import::XML: Can't use string (" ") as an ARRAY
>>ref whil?
>> e "strict refs" in use at
>>/usr/share/eprints3/perl_lib/EPrints/MetaField.pm lin?
>> e 2106. at /usr/lib/perl5/XML/LibXML.pm line 881.
>>XML::LibXML::parse_fh('XML::L?
>> ibXML=HASH(0x7fd6e81f35f0)', '*Fh::fh00001export_lirolem_XML.xml')
>>called at /u?
>> sr/lib/perl5/XML/LibXML/SAX.pm line 99 eval {...} called at
>>/usr/lib/perl5/XML/?
>> LibXML/SAX.pm line 98
>>XML::LibXML::SAX::_parse('XML::LibXML::SAX=HASH(0x7fd6e8c?
>> de0a8)') called at /usr/lib/perl5/XML/LibXML/SAX.pm line 54
>>XML::LibXML::SAX::_?
>> parse_bytestream('XML::LibXML::SAX=HASH(0x7fd6e8cde0a8)',
>>'*Fh::fh00001export_l?
>> irolem_XML.xml') called at /usr/share/eprints3/perl_lib/XML/SAX/Base.pm
>>line 26?
>> 02 XML::SAX::Base::parse('XML::LibXML::SAX=HASH(0x7fd6e8cde0a8)',
>>'HASH(0x7fd6e?
>> 9e4f930)') called at /usr/share/eprints3/perl_lib/XML/SAX/Base.pm line
>>2631 XML?
>> ::SAX::Base::parse_file('XML::LibXML::SAX=HASH(0x7fd6e8cde0a8)',
>>'*Fh::fh00001e?
>> xport_lirolem_XML.xml') called at
>>/usr/share/eprints3/perl_lib/EPrints/XML/L …
>>
>>
>>
>> From: 
>><eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.sot
>>on.ac.uk>> on behalf of Adam Field
>><af05v@ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:af05v@ecs.soton.ac.uk>>
>> Reply-To: 
>>"eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk>"
>><eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk>>
>> Date: Thursday, 2 July 2015 13:53
>> To: "eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk>"
>><eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk>>
>> Subject: [EP-tech] Re: Bulk export/import
>>
>> If you export without the files, you'll get paths to files in the file
>>object.  Through cunning use of symbolic linked directories or global
>>find and replace in the XML file, you can put the files where the XML
>>import will find them.  It's a bit hacky, but it works.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Adam Field
>> Business Relationship Manager and Community Lead
>> EPrints Services
>>
>> On 2 Jul 2015, at 13:38, Andrew Beeken
>><anbeeken@lincoln.ac.uk<mailto:anbeeken@lincoln.ac.uk>> wrote:
>>
>> That seems like a bit of a round the houses approach. I’ll dig through
>>the
>> source and see what I can find.
>>
>> On 02/07/2015 13:16,
>>"eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.sot
>>on.ac.uk> on behalf of
>> George Mamalakis"
>><eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.sot
>>on.ac.uk> on behalf of
>> mamalos@eng.auth.gr<mailto:mamalos@eng.auth.gr>> wrote:
>>
>>  From its documentation (perldoc ./bin/export) there doesn't seem to
>> support something like that. On the other hand, the documentation
>> mentions the option:
>>
>> '
>> dataset:  The name of the dataset to export, such as "archive",
>> "subject" or "user".
>> '
>>
>> You could maybe "exploit" this option by moving some eprints from one
>> dataset to another and by exporting/importing each dataset separately
>> (and then moving the appropriate eprints where they really belong).
>>
>> Haven't checked the source code, though, so maybe there's another
>> solution hidden somewhere there...:)
>>
>>
>> On 02/07/2015 02:56 μμ, Andrew Beeken wrote:
>> I wonder... Is it possible to export by type? I could perhaps export
>> each
>> type separately...
>>
>> On 02/07/2015 12:18,
>>"eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.sot
>>on.ac.uk> on behalf of
>> George Mamalakis"
>><eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.sot
>>on.ac.uk> on behalf of
>> mamalos@eng.auth.gr<mailto:mamalos@eng.auth.gr>> wrote:
>>
>> Ian and Andrew,
>>
>> I think that one can import/export specific entries -if I'm not
>> mistaken-, but I'm not exactly sure about the syntax. If it allows for
>> ranges, the 100.000 entries problem may be addressed by just splitting
>> the export/import process to more than one export/import operations. I
>> have used this syntax to select specific eprints, but my syntax was
>> something like the following:
>>
>> ./bin/export archid archive XML 114 115 116 117 > /tmp/export1
>>
>> which would seem very peculiar if it would have to be used for
>> thousands
>> of records (I assume args would overflow!:)). Nonetheless, on the worst
>> case where ranges are not allowed, the former syntax could be used
>> successfully within a very carefully written script.
>>
>>
>> On 01/07/2015 06:37 μμ, Ian Stuart wrote:
>> On 01/07/15 15:25, Andrew Beeken wrote:
>> Hello all!
>>
>> I’m currently looking at migrating our repository to a fresh install,
>> mainly because we have a bit of customisation to our live repo and I
>> want to see how this process would affect the integrity of the data.
>> Is there an easy way of importing all records from one repository,
>> say to an XML file and then importing to the new one?
>> In general (and as George says) the XML-with-files export is the way
>> to
>> go.
>>
>> I discovered it falls over with 100,000 records, so I just copied the
>> database & attached a new eprints to it :D
>>
>>
>> --
>> George Mamalakis
>>
>> IT and Security Officer,
>> Electrical and Computer Engineer (Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki),
>> PhD (Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki),
>> MSc (Imperial College of London)
>>
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>> Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
>>
>> phone number : +30 (2310) 994379
>>
>>
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>>
>> IT and Security Officer,
>> Electrical and Computer Engineer (Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki),
>> PhD (Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki),
>> MSc (Imperial College of London)
>>
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>> Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
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>
>
>-- 
>George Mamalakis
>
>IT and Security Officer,
>Electrical and Computer Engineer (Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki),
>PhD (Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki),
>MSc (Imperial College of London)
>
>School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
>Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
>
>phone number : +30 (2310) 994379
>
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