Melete Bulk Export of Modules out of UC Davis Production 2.1.x Sakai
- Login to https://smartsite.ucdavis.edu:8443/portal as a user with administrative privileges
- Navigate to a site with the Modules tool
- 'Message Center Test Course' is as good as any – you can get to it through Worksite Setup
- Click on Modules in the tools menu
- Click on Manage in the menu at the top of the tool screen
- Click on Export/Import on the screen that comes up
- Click on BULK EXPORT!!!
- You should now be prompted to save or open a file called Monster.zip – save it to your local machine in a reasonable place
- Downloading this file will probably take 5-10 minutes. DO NOT click 'stop' in your browser. The connection should be held open.
If for some reason the connection should time out (which it shouldn't)
- You should be able to login to the production box and navigate to the directory /var/melete/
- This directory should contain an approx 66Mb Monster.zip – download it to your local machine through sftp
If the file is substantially smaller than 66Mbs, then it's possible that the operation did not complete correctly. The best option in that case would be to try downloading it again through Smartsite
Once you have Monster.zip on your local machine, if you want to triple-check, you could unpack it to verify that it contains approximately 150 zip files. These are named by site id. Since we're exporting and then importing to the same exact instance, this works. Don't get freaked out by the fact that these ids are generated. They're not going to change when we migrate the database.
Some additional testing
- Ideally, now that you have your Monster.zip, you will verify that nothing happened to break the current 'bulk import' by bulk importing it to the smartsite-test server.