[ckan-dev] Loss of dataset metadata on db migration

Mon Dec 11 19:13:49 UTC 2017

HI Ian,

No, this is just a standard install (2.4). It does have some plugins from
the community.

Mike

On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 11:08 PM, Mike Sinclair <mike at opengovgear.com>
wrote:

> Hi Ian,
>
> No, this is just a standard install. 2.4
>
> Mike
>
> Mike Sinclair
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> On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 4:10 PM, Ian Ward <ian at excess.org> wrote:
>
>> Is this related to using the bcgov extension?
>>
>> IIRC that extension includes some customizations to the package
>> controller that require updates to go through the form instead of using the
>> the ckan API.
>>
>> On Dec 9, 2017 2:45 AM, "David Read" <david.read at hackneyworkshop.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Mike,
>> I can't think why you'd suffer any problems if you've successfully
>> restored the db, even if you have a newer CKAN or postgres version
>> (although if you upgraded CKAN then you need to do 'paster db
>> upgrade'). Was there an error during restoring the db, which meant
>> something was lost? Can you use psql to check the package table looks
>> the same on both servers, for the dataset name in question? I don't
>> see why the ones uploaded via API would be any different to those in
>> the form.
>> David
>>
>> On 8 December 2017 at 09:25, Mike Sinclair <mm.sinclair08 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > On closer inspection, the datasets that were uploaded through the web
>> > interface still have their metadata. However, the ones that were
>> uploaded
>> > via the API no longer have that metadata.
>> >
>> > On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 1:15 AM, Mike Sinclair <mm.sinclair08 at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi all,
>> >>
>> >> I migrated my ckan instance from one server to another. I dumped the
>> >> database and rsynced all of the resources.
>> >>
>> >> The datasets look good, however they are missing the metadata under
>> >> 'additional information." They still have their licence, organization,
>> >> groups and tags, but they have lost maintainer, extras, author, etc.
>> >>
>> >> Any ideas?
>> >>
>> >> Mike
>> >
>> >
>> >
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