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Archival Information Packages (AIPs)
As of Since DSpace 1.7, DSpace now can backup and restore all of its contents as a set of AIP Files. This includes all Communities, Collections, Items, Groups and People in the system.
This feature came out of a requirement for DSpace to better integrate with DuraCloud (http://www.duracloud.org), and other backup storage systems. One of these requirements is to be able to essentially "backup" local DSpace contents into the cloud (as a type of offsite backup), and "restore" those contents at a later time.
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