[redland-dev] Redland Storage backup

[Nicholas J Humfrey]

> Dave's suggestion is good. I have an alternative suggestion:
> 
> Is thinking outside the Redland box possible for you? Depending on
> which storage type you are using, you can easily back up the
> underlying database data files without having to deal with RDF
> syntaxes.
> 
> Lauri
> 
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Nicholas J Humfrey <njh at aelius.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> What would be the best approach to serialising an entire store with contexts? I would like to make it easy to do full storage backup/restore. I was hoping to output one of TriG/TriX/N-Quads, but I can't see how that would be easily achieved.
>> 
>> I suspect I would have to implement it all myself, just using the librdf API, but I can't even work out a way of re-using the n-triples escaping code?
>> 


Thanks for your suggestions.

I have decided to do my own N-Quads serialisation of the storage. It is pretty easy as the hard bit is done by raptor_string_ntriples_write().

http://code.google.com/p/redstore/source/browse/trunk/src/dump.c

Now I just have to write a parser...


nick.