[mapguide-users] Maintaining MapGuide Session during Restart

[bruce_weston]

Hmmm. Creating a package from a session may well the be the way forward. I
will look at doing this programatically and report back to the board on my
progress!

thanks for all your help so far people!

Ross



Kenneth Skovhede, GEOGRAF A/S wrote:
> 
> Perhaps you can create a package from a Session repo?
> 
> You will run into two problems if you try to copy from Session to Library,
> 1) Session repo is not enumerable (a security feature, IMO useless)
> 2) Runtime Maps cannot be saved into Library.
> 
> Both problems can be solved by doing a custom build of MapGuide, and 
> removing the checks.
> I seem to recal that the Session repo can be enumerated by the 
> Administrator.
> 
> You can't make a 100% xml copy, because the xml has attached resourcesm 
> which are binary files.
> 
> Regards, Kenneth Skovhede, GEOGRAF A/S
> 
> 
> 
> bruce_weston skrev:
>> Bruce D,
>>
>> Are you suggesting that this can be done? Does anyone have a script or a
>> method of copying the session repository into a library object? Is there
>> even a way of creating a copy of the session as XML?
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> Bruce W
>>
>>
>>
>> Bruce Dechant wrote:
>>   
>>> Bruce,
>>>
>>> What you are doing by trying to replace the session repository of a
>>> running server is problematic and could lead to server instability. You
>>> really shouldn't do this.
>>>
>>> The session repository is meant for temporary runtime data only and not
>>> for persistent data. If you want any of your session repository data to
>>> survive a restart you need to use the library repository instead.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Bruce
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: mapguide-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>>> [mailto:mapguide-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of
>>> bruce_weston
>>> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 2:34 AM
>>> To: mapguide-users at lists.osgeo.org
>>> Subject: [mapguide-users] Maintaining MapGuide Session during Restart
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm just wondering if anyone has managed to do this yet? This is my
>>> attempted
>>> MapGuide restart script to keep the contents of the session folder
>>> backed
>>> up, but it doesn't work:
>>>
>>> echo MapGuide Scheduler Task Starting
>>> taskkill /F /FI "SERVICES eq MapGuideServer2.0"
>>> net stop MapGuideServer2.0
>>> REM xcopy
>>> c:\Progra~1\MapGuideOpenSource2.0\Server\Repositories\Session\*
>>> c:\Progra~1\MapGuideOpenSource2.0\SessionBackup\ /E /Y
>>> net start MapGuideServer2.0
>>> REM xcopy c:\Progra~1\MapGuideOpenSource2.0\SessionBackup\*
>>> c:\Progra~1\MapGuideOpenSource2.0\Server\Repositories\Session\ /E /Y
>>> echo MapGuide Scheduler Task Completed
>>> pause
>>>
>>> Is there session data stored anywhere else? I really want to make the
>>> process seamless for my users.
>>>
>>> Bruce
>>>
>>>
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