[ckan-dev] Import Datasets and Data Using Harvester

[David Lemayian]

Thanks Sean! Figured as much but thought there would have been an easier
way.


On 6 May 2013 10:50, Sean Hammond <sean.hammond at okfn.org> wrote:

> > I have 2 ckan instances; ckan1 and ckan2. I want to move datasets and the
> > actual data from ckan1 to ckan2 such that it downloads from ckan2. I have
> > installed the ckanext-harvest (release v2.0) and have managed to harvest
> > from another cKan instance but it seems to link the download to the ckan1
> > instance. How can I achieve this?
>
> Are you talking about resource files that you've uploaded to CKAN's
> FileStore?
>
> Once you've moved the metadata (either by harvesting, or using a simple
> paster db dump and paster db load) you then need to move the files.
>
> As far as I know, there isn't a great, automatic way to do this yet.
> Assuming you're using local file storage with the FileStore, you should
> be able to manually copy the contents of your ofs.storage_dir from
> server 1 to server 2. After that, a link to an uploaded file like
> http://server1.com/data/foobar should work if you replace server1.com
> with server2.com.
>
> Next, you need to go into your CKAN database and change all the
> server1.com references to server2.com. The references are in the
> `resource` table in your CKAN database.
>
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