Hi David,
In the IPT there is 1 directory (the data directory) that you can copy to a new machine to migrate an installation. The admin should also back up this directory periodically for disaster recovery purposes.
You are correct in understanding the IPT 2.0, in that it does not support ad-hoc querying. There are many potential development directions for the IPT, and during 2011 we will open up a wider discussion amongst the IPT users to determine the best approach. There are tools that do ad hoc querying so perhaps it is not the best direction for the IPT, and the IPT would be better placed at integrating quality control routines and annotation consumption for example. It will not be possible to satisfy all the diverse requirements on minimum hardware, simplicity, performance, functionality and scale without some compromises somewhere - this is where we need to do a good needs assessment as things develop.
Best wishes, Tim
On 2/9/11, Herbario SANT sant.herbarium@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for your answer Markus.
What I am trying to figure out is the best way to reconfigure an IPT when for some reason the server stops working (we buy a new computer, we migrate from/to windows to/from linux, or something alike). How to restore everything fastly and safely? I used to keep copies of some xml files when using digir/tapirlink, and this was a reasonably easy task to do. But what about IPT?
One more question regarding digir/tapirlink versus IPT:
It was possible to launch direct xml queries to them, so I could construct a web server to show inventories or specific searches of an specific data provider. How can I do this with IPT? I haven't looked in detail but I guess the only way to get data from IPT is downloading full datasets
Nobody else has requested this feature? Would it be possible to have something like this built in IPT, without reducing IPT performance a lot? (even with a different technic but similar client interface services): http://tapirlink.berkeley.edu/tapir_client.php http://algae.manoa.hawaii.edu/database/lib/tapirlink/www/tapir_client.php
Thanks for your answers David
-- David García San León Herbario SANT Facultade de Farmacia - Laboratorio de Botánica Universidade de Santiago de Compostela 15782 - Galicia (Spain) http://www.usc.es/herbario Tel. +34 881815022 Fax +34 981594912 _______________________________________________ IPT mailing list IPT@lists.gbif.org http://lists.gbif.org/mailman/listinfo/ipt