[opencms-dev] Export/Import site while keeping the 'unpublished' flags

[Michael Emmerich]

Mathias,

when you want to migrate from OpenCms 6 to 7 as well, you should try the 
following:


1) Go to the ONLINE project and export your content with the Database 
Adminstration. This will make an export file that only contains the 
content that was already published.

2) Now switch to the project where you have made the changes that are 
not published yet. In the Database Adminstration, mark the checkbox 
"Changed in project". This should only export those files that are 
changed or new in the current project you just have selected.

You then have two export files. Import the first one in your new system 
and publish everything.
Then create a project for the the unpublished files, switch to it and 
import the second export fiel you made.

If you want to migrate modules, you MUST always do this with the module 
export/import. You can later add changed module resoruces as described in 2)


Hope this helps

Kind regards,
Michael Emmerich

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Michael Emmerich

Alkacon Software GmbH  - The OpenCms Experts
http://www.alkacon.com - http://www.opencms.org


Mathias Lin | SYSVISION schrieb:
> Thanks for the hint. 
> I forgot to mention, they're different OpenCms versions. Want to migrate
> 6.2.3 ->7.5.1.
> The db structure of v6 and v7 differs from each other. So DB dump wouldn't
> work in my case.
> 
> 
> 
> Isaac R. Higgins wrote:
>>
>> if you're using MySQL, do a DB dump from the old system and load it into
>> the new one and configure your new installation to point to the loaded
>> data... I've done it several times without issue.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org on behalf of Mathias Lin | SYSVISION
>> Sent: Wed 11/18/2009 6:24 AM
>> To: opencms-dev at opencms.org
>> Subject: [opencms-dev] Export/Import site while keeping the 'unpublished'
>> flags
>>  
>>
>> I want to migrate a site from one OpenCms server to another, while in the
>> old
>> server/site, some files have not yet been published.
>> Is there any way to migrate the site to a new OpenCms server while keeping
>> the published flag for the files (and having the previously published
>> files
>> available under the online project)?
>>
>> Module im/export obviously wouldn't work since all files would get
>> published.
>>
>> Doing an DB export/import via OpenCms admin and adding the module manually
>> into opencms-modules.xml also wouldn't work since after the import into a
>> clean OpenCms installation, there wouldn't be any files under the online
>> project and all files under the offline project would be unpublished.
>>
>> Therefore my question, is it possible at all? If so, any best practice?
>>
>>
>> -----
>> Mathias Lin
>> SYSVISION Ltd., China
>> http://www.sysvision.com
>> -- 
>>
>>
> 
> 
> -----
> Mathias Lin
> SYSVISION Ltd., China
> http://www.sysvision.com

-- 
Kind Regards,
Michael.

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Michael Emmerich

Alkacon Software GmbH  - The OpenCms Experts
http://www.alkacon.com - http://www.opencms.org