Complete export of a journal not possible

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Hey there,

AFAIR there was an option for completely exporting a journal in OJS 2 …
Maybe that is wishful thinking, but is there really no “complete export” plugin/option neither for site manager nor for journal manager?
Do I miss something?

NB: It is not a backup problem. We have daily snapshots of our working system. But if I want to move the journal to a different server, I have to do this manually incl. the db … a “dump-restore” function would be helpful. Or maybe it rises issues I am not aware of …?

thanks and have a great day
cw

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Let clarify a bit. Do you want to export besides issues all data about journal, database etc. to be in one package?
If yes, I can tell you that this can be sometimes a quite big package. For example, I administer one journal that does have more than 3500 articles. Export of all of that would require a lot of resources such as CUP, RAM etc.
Please inform me did I understood you well.

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Yes, that would be the vision. But I understand the problem; yet my jouornals are somewhere about 1/10th of yours …

Hardware capacity should not be a problem. The system runs on a VM on a professional ProLiant of which I could assign the ressources on demand.

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Maybe @asmecher can help to give you good answer on your question.

5

But if you were looking for something similar for OJS3, then sorry.

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Hi all,

For OJS3, there’s nothing currently released – but we’ll be working towards an equivalent to the OJS plugin in future releases. See Extend native import/export plugin to include additional entities · Issue #3261 · pkp/pkp-lib · GitHub for details.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team