Snapshot in Openbravo

Question

What exactly creating snapshot means in openbravo. How to create and restore it.I am new to openbravo and i dont have any idea about it. I have ubuntu OS running on my machine with openbravo 3 and postgresql 8.4 database.

Any help would be greatly appreciated .

Answer 1

If you are a newbie developing with Openbravo framework, you have an instance up and running, and you want to start testing something. Making an snapshot of your current state, gives you a easy way to step back if something goes wrong .

snapshot actually creates the database dump and also creates backup of your openbravo source folder using ant script.

You can manually create database dump by right clicking on the database and selecting backup option ,and doing the same for the openbravo source folder.

Follow these steps to create a snapshot ..

step1: Get the snapshot script code from here . copy the code and save it as snapshot.xml

step2:go to your openbravo source folder lets say for ex

cd /home/openbravo(your openbravo instance folder)

enter the following command to create snapshot ant -f snapshot.xml

In order to restore it enter the following command ant -f snapshot.xml restore

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