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Configurable Entities are not fully supported by AIP Backup & Restore. Since Entities are Items, their metadata and files can be exported/imported via AIPs. However, their relationships to other Entities cannot yet be exported (or imported) via AIPs. Therefore, restoring Entities via AIP Backup & Restore may result in accidental data loss (namely loss of relationships). See https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/issues/2882 for more information. |
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If you are using the Item Level Versioning functionality (disabled by default), you must be aware that this "Item Level Versioning" feature is not yet compatible with AIP Backup & Restore. Using them together may result in accidental data loss. Currently the AIPs that DSpace generates only store the latest version of an Item. Therefore, past versions of Items will always be lost when you perform a restore / replace using AIP tools. |
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Can Backup & Restore all DSpace Content easily | Yes (Requires two backups/restores – one for Database and one for Files) | Yes (Though, will not backup/restore items which are not officially "in archive") |
Can Backup & Restore a Single Community/Collection/Item easily | No (It is possible, but requires a strong understanding of DSpace database structure & folder organization in order to only backup & restore metadata/files belonging to that single object) | Yes |
Backups can be used to move one or more Community/Collection/Items to another DSpace system easily. | No (Again, it is possible, but requires a strong understanding of DSpace database structure & folder organization in order to only move metadata/files belonging to that object) | Yes |
Can Backup & Restore Item Versions | Yes (Requires two backups/restores – one for Database and one for Files) | No (Currently Item Level Versioning , AIP Backup & Restore is not fully compatible with Item Level Versioning. AIP Backup & Restore can only backup/restore the latest version of an Item) |
Can Backup & Restore Configurable Entities | Yes (Requires two backups/restores – one for Database and one for Files) | No (Currently, AIP Backup & Restore is not fully compatible with Configurable Entities. AIP Backup & Restore can only backup/restore the latest version of an Itemthe metadata & files of the Entity, but cannot backup/restore relationships to other Entities) |
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Supports backup/restore of all Communities/Collections/Items (including metadata, files, logos, etc.) | Yes | Yes |
Supports backup/restore of all People/Groups/Permissions | Yes | Yes |
Supports backup/restore of all Collection-specific Item Templates | Yes | Yes |
Supports backup/restore of all Collection Harvesting settings (only for Collections which pull in all Items via OAI-PMH or OAI-ORE) | Yes | No (This is a known issue. All previously harvested Items will be restored, but the OAI-PMH/OAI-ORE harvesting settings will be lost during the restore process.) |
Supports backup/restore of all Withdrawn (but not deleted) Items | Yes | Yes |
Supports backup/restore of Item Mappings between Collections | Yes | Yes (During restore, the AIP Ingester may throw a false "Could not find a parent DSpaceObject" error (see Common Issues or Error Messages), if it tries to restore an Item Mapping to a Collection that it hasn't yet restored. But this error can be safely bypassed using the 'skipIfParentMissing' flag (see Additional Packager Options for more details). |
Supports backup/restore of all in-process, uncompleted Submissions (or those currently in an approval workflow) | Yes | No (AIPs are only generated for objects which are completed and considered "in archive") |
Supports backup/restore of Items using custom Metadata Schemas & Fields | Yes | Yes (Custom Metadata Fields will be automatically recreated. Custom Metadata Schemas must be manually created first, in order for DSpace to be able to recreate custom fields belonging to that schema. See Common Issues or Error Messages for more details.) |
Supports backup/restore of all local DSpace Configurations and Customizations | Yes (if you backup your entire DSpace directory as part of backing up your files) | Not by default (unless you also backup parts of your DSpace directory – note, you wouldn't need to backup the '[dspace]/assetstore' folder again, as those files are already included in AIPs) |
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In some cases, when you restore a large amount of content to your DSpace, the internal database counts (called "sequences") may get out of sync with the Handles of the content you just restored. As a best practice, it is highly recommended to always re-run the "update-sequences.sql" script on your DSpace database after a larger scale restore. This database script should be run while DSpace is stopped (you may either stop Tomcat or just the DSpace webapps). PostgreSQL/Oracle must be running. The script can be found in the following locations for PostgreSQL and Oracle, respectively Simply run: |
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In some cases, when you restore a large amount of content to your DSpace, the internal database counts (called "sequences") may get out of sync with the Handles of the content you just restored. As a best practice, it is highly recommended to always re-run the "update-sequences.sql" script on your DSpace database after a larger scale restore. This database script should be run while DSpace is stopped (you may either stop Tomcat or just the DSpace webapps). PostgreSQL/Oracle must be running. The script can be found in the following locations for PostgreSQL and Oracle, respectively Simply run: |
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Ingest/Restore Error: "Group Administrator already exists" | If you receive this problem, you are likely attempting to Restore an Entire Site, but are not running the command in Force Replace Mode ( |
Ingest/Restore Error: "Unknown Metadata Schema encountered (mycustomschema)" | If you receive this problem, one or more of your Items is using a custom metadata schema which DSpace is currently not aware of (in the example, the schema is named "mycustomschema"). Because DSpace AIPs do not contain enough details to recreate the missing Metadata Schema, you must create it manually via the DSpace Admin UI. Please note that you only need to create the Schema. You do not need to manually create all the fields belonging to that schema, as DSpace will do that for you as it restores each AIP. Once the schema is created in DSpace, re-run your restore command. DSpace will automatically re-create all fields belonging to that custom metadata schema as it restores each Item that uses that schema. |
Ingest Error: "Could not find a parent DSpaceObject referenced as 'xxx/xxx'" | When you encounter this error message it means that an object could not be ingested/restored as it belongs to a parent object which doesn't currently exist in your DSpace instance. During a full restore process, this error can be skipped over and treated as a warning by specifying the ' |
Submit Error: PSQLException: ERROR: duplicate key value violates unique constraint "handle_handle_key" | This error means that while submitting one or more AIPs, DSpace encountered a Handle conflict. This is a general error the may occur in DSpace if your Handle sequence has somehow become out-of-date. However, it's easy to fix. Just run the |