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This page serves as a Discussion page for the AIP Backup and Restore feature, first released in DSpace 1.7.0.
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Restore existing Deposit License from AIP – i.e. do not add a new license (or change the license) during restore/replace- Restore existing CC License(s)
- Restore item mappings to multiple collections (for items which are mapped to several collections)
- Restore withdrawal state
- Restore embargo state
- Restore permissions & roles (user/group permissions) on Items, Bundles & Bitstreams
- Restoring metadata in a custom Metadata Field (i.e. non-default "dc" field)
- Restoring metadata in a custom Metadata Schema (i.e. not "dc").
- Note: Schema must be created manually, but after that, the fields will be auto-created and auto-restored.
- Restore item having no bitstreams and/or no bundles.
- Options to restore just metadata or just particular bitstreams/bundles?
- Exists on export, but not yet on import.
- Will not restore items which have not made it into the "archived" state. In other words, at this time, there are no plans to restore items which are still in an approval workflow (WorkflowItems) or items which are unfinished submissions (WorkspaceItems). WorkspaceItems and WorkflowItems are never exported as AIPs.
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- Restore permissions & roles (user/group permissions) on Collections
- Restore Workflow approval groups
- Restore Collection-specific license
- Restore Collection's Item Template?
- Restore Collection's content source info? (e.g. OAI-Harvesting Collections versus normal Collections)
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- Default Settings (NO Validation): took about 11 seconds to ingest all 26 AIPs
- Turning validate On (
-o validate=trueflag) (but using external Schemas): took about 1 minute, 12 seconds to ingest all 26 AIPs - Locally cached all schemas (with validation turned on): took about 12 seconds to ingest all 26 AIPs
- You can locally cache all schemas by using the
mets.xsd.*settings indspace.cfg. See AIP Backup and RestoreRestore#AIP Configurations To Improve Ingestion Speed while Validating in the official AIP Backup and Restore documentation.
- You can locally cache all schemas by using the
Discussion / Use Cases
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