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1. Install a fresh (empty) copy of DSpace on your local server.
2. Configure it to have the same handle prefix as demo.dspace.org (handle prefix: 10673) & setup an initial administrative user (ideally 'dspacedemo+admin@gmail.com' which is the Demo Administrator on demo.dspace.org).

3. Download the existing AIPs from this directory, e.g.

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   scp dspace@demo.dspace.org:~/AIP-restore/* .

   
   

4. Use the downloaded AIPs to "restore" content to your local server's empty DSpace, e.g.

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   \[dspace\]/bin/dspace packager -r -a -f -t AIP -e [admin-email] -i 10673/0 /full/path/to/SITE@10673-0.zip

   
   

5. Update your DSpace's content as you see fit (adding/removing/changing objects)

6. Export a fresh set of AIPs, by performing a full SITE export e.g.

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   \[dspace\]/bin/dspace packager -d -a -t AIP -e [admin-email] -i 10673/0 -o includeBundles=ORIGINAL,LICENSE -o passwords=true SITE@10673-0.zip

   • The above example just exports ORIGINAL & LICENSE bundles into AIPs, and also exports user passwords into AIPs (so that they can also be restored).

7. Upload those newly updated AIPs to demo.dspace.org, e.g.

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   scp . dspace@demo.dspace.org:~/AIP-restore/

   • NOTE: Before putting them on demo.dspace.org, you may want to do your own test restore using these AIPs, just to ensure there are no issues.

How to share AIPs for public download

At this time, sharing AIPs is not automated.  It's also not currently possible to share them from the default ~/AIP-restore/ location, so this is a bit of a "temporary hack" that needs fixing in the future.

1. First, copy all the AIPs to a shareable location.  Below, we chose /usr/share/dspace/AIP-restore folder:

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   sudo mkdir -p /usr/share/dspace/AIP-restore cd /usr/share/dspace/AIP-restore/ sudo cp ~dspace/AIP-restore/* . sudo chown -R dspace:dspace /usr/share/dspace/AIP-restore/

   
   

2. Next, update the Apache configuration for demo.dspace.org to provide access to that shareable location:

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   sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/25-demo.dspace.org.conf ## ADD THE FOLLOWING INTO THAT FILE (inside the <VirtualHost>) <VirtualHost *:80> ... # Define path /aip to point at shareable AIP-restore location Alias "/aip" "/usr/share/dspace/AIP-restore" <Directory "/usr/share/dspace/AIP-restore"> # Allow viewing file listing Options Indexes # Don't allow access to README, logs or parent link (..) IndexIgnore README* *.log .. # Allow access to all Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> # Don't proxy /aip paths to Tomcat ProxyPass /aip ! ... </VirtualHost>

   
   

3. Reload Apache and test it out:

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   sudo service apache2 reload

   
   

4. Assuming everything works, here's a wget command that can be used to download the AIPs to a local computer 

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   # This recursively downloads all files (except index.html file) into an "aip" directory wget -r -np -nH -R "index.html*" --execute="robots=off" http://demo.dspace.org/aip/

   
   

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