So I'm try to help someone out here(Opensource project called
geonetwork). A server got hacked and had to be taken offline. Before
doing so a zexp of the site was taken (which I have).

So on another machine I did a Unified install of 2.5.5 and attempted to
import the zexp to get an error:

Input MIME type 'text/x-web-markdown' for transform markdown_to_html is
not registered in the MIME types registry

A solution on the web in several places says "By adding the
‘text/x-web-markdown’ and ‘text/x-web-textile’ MIME types in the
mimetypes_registry in the original site and re-exporting, the import was
successful."

Problem here is I don't have access to the original site anymore (the
hard disk it was on has actually died).

Is this an issue of version mismatch? I'm only guessing the site was
2.5.x vintage, and added the PloneSoftwareCenter as that was the only
known add on product people could remember.

Any chance hand editing the PortalTransforms product would allow it?
"Module Products.PortalTransforms.TransformEngine, line 271, in
_mapTransform" is the bottom of the traceback.

Other idea, anyone know how to extract the content from a zexp file. I'm
not sure we care if it goes back into Plone at this point.

Thanks,
Alex
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Steve,

In this particular case is there any way to open the zexp directly in
python just to try and grab stuff out of it just by looping through and
extracting junks of text. As I said before site rescue isn't the
important part, just data recovery.

Thanks,
Alex

On 09/01/2010 09:42 AM, Steve McMahon wrote:
> Please pardon my taking advantage of Alex's pain to step up on a soap box,
> but we should all learn from this:
>
> .zexp exports are not backups! They can only be imported into databases
> running with *identical* version and product configurations. Their only real
> use is for moving things around within that very limited boundary.
>
> If all you have is a .zexp, you're going to have to try to set up an
> identical Zope version, then repeatedly try imports until you finally get
> all the right add ons in place to match the old configuration. Miserable!
>
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Alex Mandel <tech_dev-V1ui0Jp4Xm2ZwHVy+eqOOgC/G2K4zDHf@public.gmane.org>wrote:
>
>> So I'm try to help someone out here(Opensource project called
>> geonetwork). A server got hacked and had to be taken offline. Before
>> doing so a zexp of the site was taken (which I have).
>>
>> So on another machine I did a Unified install of 2.5.5 and attempted to
>> import the zexp to get an error:
>>
>> Input MIME type 'text/x-web-markdown' for transform markdown_to_html is
>> not registered in the MIME types registry
>>
>> A solution on the web in several places says "By adding the
>> ‘text/x-web-markdown’ and ‘text/x-web-textile’ MIME types in the
>> mimetypes_registry in the original site and re-exporting, the import was
>> successful."
>>
>> Problem here is I don't have access to the original site anymore (the
>> hard disk it was on has actually died).
>>
>> Is this an issue of version mismatch? I'm only guessing the site was
>> 2.5.x vintage, and added the PloneSoftwareCenter as that was the only
>> known add on product people could remember.
>>
>> Any chance hand editing the PortalTransforms product would allow it?
>> "Module Products.PortalTransforms.TransformEngine, line 271, in
>> _mapTransform" is the bottom of the traceback.
>>
>> Other idea, anyone know how to extract the content from a zexp file. I'm
>> not sure we care if it goes back into Plone at this point.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Alex

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...
It was suggested during the sprint that all websites should have their own
data.fs, and that moving websites should be done via those data.fs files. We
haven't been able to do this since we have so many websites to deal with and
not nearly enough space, but I was wondering how you all handle this? Does
anyone have Zope instances with multiple data.fs files and if yeah, what are
your experiences with it?
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