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Comment: documented dspace export -x

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Command used:

[dspace]/bin/dspace export

Java class:

org.dspace.app.itemexport.ItemExport

Arguments short and (long) forms:

Description

-t or --type

Type of export. COLLECTION will inform the program you want the whole collection. ITEM will be only the specific item. (You will actually key in the keywords in all caps. See examples below.)

-i or --id

The ID or Handle of the Collection or Item to export.

-d or --dest

The destination path where you want the file of items to be placed.

-n or --number

Sequence number to begin export the items with. Whatever number you give, this will be the name of the first directory created for your export. The layout of the export directory is the same as the layout used for import.

-m or --migrate

Export the item/collection for migration. This will remove the handle and metadata that will be re-created in the new instance of DSpace.

-x or --exclude-bitstreamsDo not export bitstreams, see the usage scenario below.

-h or --help

Brief Help.

Exporting a Collection

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Using the -m argument will export the item/collection and also perform the migration step. It will perform the same process that the next section Exchanging Content Between Repositories performs. We recommend that section to be read in conjunction with this flag being used.

The -x Argument

Using the -x argument will do the standard export except for the bitstreams which will not be exported. If you have full SAF without bitstreams and you have the bitstreams archive (which might have been imported into DSpace earlier) somewhere near, you could symlink original archive files into SAF directories and have an exported collection which almost doesn't occupy any space but otherwise is identical to the exported collection (i.e. could be imported into DSpace). In case of huge collections -x mode might be substantially faster than full export.