Re: [galaxy-dev] Creation of a backup/migrate script for data/users

This is a tough question - I suspect it will be difficult no matter how you proceed. The API objects don't map 100% directly to database objects and may not have complete coverage - but using the database directly will require one to learn a lot of Galaxy's data model I suspect. A middle ground - would be to just use the Galaxy code and ORM layer without running a Galaxy server (see scripts/db_shell.py for instance). My gut tells me it is probably be easiest (least difficult anyway) to target the database directly - but this could be wrong. -John On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 6:21 AM, Rémy Dernat <remy.d1(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to create a code to backup and migrate(*) galaxy datas, based > on the api and/or with the script I did here: > https://github.com/remyd1/galaxy_debug_params/blob/master/source/Template... > > To do that, I would use the galaxy model, to retrieve everything in the old > one and recreate everything in the new one. > > However, I would like to be able to do that without my web server running. > That is to say, a "cold" migration to avoid any current task to write > additionnal things into the database. Obviously, that is a problem for the > api because this one use the web server. > > Could you give some advice to do that ? Should I recreate a code from 0 ? > Could I use the code in the api ? Is there a way to create a code that could > use the api differently (recreate a copy of the api without the web server) > ? > > Kind regards, > > Remy > > > (*) this is important; that means you could import data from an old galaxy > to a recent one (or the opposite); a simple backup of files and a dump of > the db is not enough. > > ___________________________________________________________ > Please keep all replies on the list by using "reply all" > in your mail client. To manage your subscriptions to this > and other Galaxy lists, please use the interface at: > http://lists.bx.psu.edu/ > > To search Galaxy mailing lists use the unified search at: > http://galaxyproject.org/search/mailinglists/