Import and Export

The grouprise content submitted by users is stored in two locations:

• database: text-based content

• media directory: file-based content (e.g. images or file uploads)

Export

The data can be exported:

service grouprise stop
grouprisectl database_dump
grouprisectl media_dump
service grouprise start

The default backup directory is defined by the backup_path. It can be overridden for the above database_dump and media_dump operations via the --output-dir argument.

The above database_dump command creates a dump, which is bound to the current database engine. See :ref:database-move for a database-neutral export format.

Import

The following steps import the media and the database content:

service grouprise stop
grouprisectl media_import --filename MEDIA_ARCHIVE.tar.gz
# drop all tables (or create a new database) before importing the archived data
zcat DATABASE_DUMP.sql.gz | grouprisectl dbshell
service grouprise start

The above database procedure assumes, that the source and destination databases use the same engine (e.g. PostgreSQL). The details of a transfer between different database engines is described in section Database Management.