Hi Richard,
On Nov 21, 2007, at 4:56 PM, goldring, richard wrote:
Hi,
I had a problem with importing an XAR running xwiki-enterprise-1.1-
milestone-3 and my WinZip program didn't recognise the XAR as
zipped file like other XAR files. Is this a known problem?
You say you have a XAR
that you cannot import in XE 1.1.M3. So the
question is: where did you get this XAR from?
Has it been fixed in the latest releases? Is there
anyway to recover
the data in this 'corrupted' XAR?
Let's first understand your problem.
Could the Import/Export facility be develop to provide proper
backups (as Confluence does) so you don't have to attach an XAR file
to restore as a backup?
Could you describe a bit more what you call a "poper
backup". I
haven't used confluence for a while and I don't recall how it does it
(I thought it was generating a zip containing XML files much like what
xwiki does).
BTW for large databases we don't recommend using XARs (they should be
reserved for applications import/exports I think) since attaching tens
of MB isn't a good solution. For large DBs we recommend backuping the
DB using the standard DB backup tools.
If you have some ideas for improving backups please let us know.
That'd be cool.
Thanks
-Vincent