Alfresco Bulk Filesystem Import Tool

post from my other blog at http://ylbd.blogspot.com/

 

get the tool

http://code.google.com/p/alfresco-bulk-filesystem-import/downloads/list

 

use the alfresco module managing tool

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Module_Management_Tool

 

 

Installation Steps

The following steps describe how to download and install the Alfresco Bulk Filesystem Import Tool:

1. Download the latest AMP file containing the tool from here
2. Shutdown your Alfresco instance (use the .sh inside your alfreso install folder)
3. Make a backup of the original alfresco.war file. On Tomcat, this is located in ${ALFRESCO_HOME}/tomcat/webapps
4. Use the Alfresco Module Management Tool to install the AMP file obtained in step 1
5. Restart Alfresco, watching the log carefully for errors

Running the MMT

Run the following command:

  java -jar alfresco-mmt-2.1.jar [args]

It is compatible with V2.0 WAR files and above.

MMT Commands

The MMT has a number of commands. Details of these are outlined below:

install

usage: install <AMPFileLocation> <WARFileLocation> [options]

valid options:

   -verbose   : enable verbose output
   -directory : indicates that the amp file location specified is a directory.
                All amp files found in the directory and its sub directories are installed.
   -force     : forces installation of AMP regardless of currently installed module version
   -preview   : previews installation of AMP without modifying WAR file
   -nobackup  : indicates that no backup should be made of the WAR

 

Stop Alfresco

:~/alfresco-4.0.d-1$ ./ctlscript.sh stop

/home/ardian/alfresco-4.0.d-1/apache-tomcat/scripts/ctl.sh : tomcat not running

/home/ardian/alfresco-4.0.d-1/mysql/scripts/ctl.sh : mysql stopped

 

Check if alfresco is running

 

ardian@arbk-share:~/alfresco-4.0.d-1$ ps -ef | grep alfresco

ardian   18815 18168  0 11:06 pts/2    00:00:00 grep –color=auto alfresco

 

locate where the alfresco-mmt-2.1.jar is usually its under alfresco install dir in the bin/ 

For me its /alfresco-4.0.d-1/apps/alfresco

 

java -jar alfresco-mmt.jar install ~/alfresco-bulk-filesystem-import-1.1-ALF40.amp ~/alfresco-4.0.d-1/apache-tomcat/webapps/alfresco.war

 

list the modules

 

java -jar alfresco-mmt.jar list ~/alfresco-4.0.d-1/apache-tomcat/webapps/alfresco.war

Module ‘org.alfresco.extension.alfresco-bulk-filesystem-import’ installed in ‘/home/ardian/alfresco-4.0.d-1/apache-tomcat/webapps/alfresco.war’

   -    Title:        Alfresco Bulk Filesystem Import v1.1 (for Alfresco v4.0)

   -    Version:      1.1

   -    Install Date: Wed Jul 25 11:18:19 CEST 2012

   -    Description:   Alfresco Bulk Filesystem Import tool.  Provides high performance bulk loading of content from the server’s filesystem into Alfresco.

 

If you run Alfresco on Linux turn of CIFS: add this

CODE: SELECT ALL

cifs.enabled=false

 

to alfresco-global.properties.

 

 

export BULK=alfresco-bulk-filesystem-import-1.0.amp

 

java -jar $ALFRESCO_HOME/bin/alfresco-mmt.jar install $ALFRESCO_HOME/amps/$BULK $ALFRESCO_HOME/tomcat/webapps/alfresco.war -force -verbose

 

$ apply_amps.sh

 

 

visit

http://yourserver:8080/alfresco/service/bulk/import/filesystem

 

 

 

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