[Setup] cut or copy and paste "large" plone site?

[Steve McMahon]

You should find an event.log file in your client directories. Sometimes put
in a separate log directory.

You may wish to start a client in foreground mode and directly address it
while doing this kind of experimenting.

Watching the log or foreground console will give you a pretty good idea of
whether or not the clear/rebuild is reindexing. If your site is not just
large in bulk, but has a lot of content objects, you'll need to enable
subtransactions.

Other strategies:

* Set up a mirror of the old site (using backup data) and simply delete
everything but the target site. If you want to combine it others at the end
of the update process, you may use mount points.

* Use Zope's export/import facility, restoring to a mirror of the old setup
(same versions/add-ons). If you restore to a different folder, be ready to
rebuild the catalog.

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 10:59 AM, John Schinnerer <john at eco-living.net>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I think this is the place for install/upgrade issues. If not please direct
> me to the appropriate place.
>
> Plone 3.3.5 is the platform here, but the reason for the question is to
> facilitate upgrading a 3.3.5 site to 4.x.
>
> Is it possible to cut/copy and paste a "large" plone site, within a given
> zope instance that has one or more existing plone sites?
>
> Also, is there a way to verify that "clear and rebuild" and "update" of
> catalog (portal_catalog -> Advanced tab) complete, or not, for a "large"
> site?
>
> "Large" in this case means a Data.fs of ~5.7GB.
>
> I am asking because I have started "clear and rebuild" and "update"
> operations multiple times, but after some long time of the browser "waiting
> for domain.tld...," the right pane of the ZMI refreshes with a "connection
> refused."
>
> I am getting the same result when I try and copy or cut and paste the
> site. In that case it seems clear the operation failed at some point, since
> the site remains in the original location when I refresh the ZMI tab (was
> not moved or copied).
>
> Does one of the logs track these operations? Or is there any other way to
> find out what is actually happening, especially with the catalog operations?
>
> thanks,
> John S.
>
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