[ckan-dev] Importing server-side data

[Nigel Babu]

Hi Rishi,

We don't yet have a script to import data server-side.

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On 26 March 2014 04:20, Verma, Rishi (398J) <Rishi.Verma at jpl.nasa.gov>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I was reading through the documentation on Filestore [1] and also the
> Loading Data guide [2] but I didn't see anything detailing how to perform
> server-side data loads.
>
> I have tens of gigabytes worth of data stored on my server, which sits on
> the same box CKAN is running on. I want to import this data into Filestore
> and make it accessible via CKAN. Is there some CKAN API support for
> non-HTTP based data import into Filestore? In other words, can I import
> data into the Filestore module without having to actually "upload" it and
> risk the server crashing?
>
> An alternative idea I was thinking is linking to the dataset. However, I
> don't want to make the dataset accessible over a URL to the entire world,
> instead, I want to have CKAN control the access. Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks much,
> Rishi Verma
>
> --
> [1] http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/maintaining/filestore.html
> [2] http://docs.ckan.org/en/ckan-1.7.2/loading-data.html
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