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Supported Backup/Restore Types |
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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 | ||
Supported Object Types During Backup & Restore |
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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Supports backup/restore of all Withdrawn (but not deleted) Items | Yes | Yes | ||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.) | ||
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Please note: If you are submitting a larger amount of content (e.g. multiple Communities/Collections) to your DSpace, you may want to tell the 'packager' command to skip over any existing Collection approval workflows by using the Therefore, if this content has already received some level of approval, you may want to submit it using the -w flag, which will skip any workflow approval processes. For more information, see Submitting AIP(s) while skipping any Collection Approval Workflows
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Please note, if you are using AIPs to move an entire Community or Collection from one DSpace to another, there is a known issue (see DS-1105) that the new DSpace instance will be unable to (re-)create any DSpace Groups or EPeople which are referenced by a Community or Collection AIP. The reason is that the Community or Collection AIP itself doesn't contain enough information to create those Groups or EPeople (rather that info is stored in the SITE AIP, for usage during Full Site Restores).
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Submitting AIP(s) while skipping any Collection Approval Workflows
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Issue / Error Message | How to Fix this Problem | ||
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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 'skipIfParentMissing=true' option (see Additional Packager Options). If you have a larger number of Items which are mapped to multiple Collections, the AIP Ingester will sometimes attempt to restore an item mapping before the Collection itself has been restored (thus throwing this error). Luckily, this is not anything to be concerned about. As soon as the Collection is restored, the Item Mapping which caused the error will also be automatically restored. So, if you encounter this error during a full restore, it is safe to bypass this error message using the 'skipIfParentMissing=true' option. All your Item Mappings should still be restored correctly. | ||
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