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Updated Upgrading or Merging Archives (markdown)

Nick Sweeting
2022-04-12 17:01:05 -04:00
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Upgrading-or-Merging-Archives.md

@@ -96,28 +96,29 @@ Two or more existing ArchiveBox collection dirs can be merged together by simply
2. Create a new empty archivebox collection in a new folder somewhere, this will hold the new merged collection
```bash
mkdir ~/archivebox_new
cd ~/archivebox_new
mkdir /path/to/archivebox_new
cd /path/to/archivebox_new
archivebox init --setup
```
3. Copy everything under `./archive/*` in each old collection into the new collection's `./archive/` folder
```bash
rsync --archive --info=progress2 /path/to/archivebox1/data/archive/ ~/archivebox_new/archive
rsync --archive --info=progress2 /path/to/archivebox2/data/archive/ ~/archivebox_new/archive
rsync --archive --info=progress2 /path/to/archivebox1/data/archive/ /path/to/archivebox_new/data/archive
rsync --archive --info=progress2 /path/to/archivebox2/data/archive/ /path/to/archivebox_new/data/archive
# ...repeat the same for each collection if merging more than two
```
4. Run `archivebox init` in the new merged collection to regenerate the new index
```bash
cd ~/archivebox_new
cd /path/to/archivebox_new
archivebox init --setup
```
5. The new collection should now contain all the entries from the old collections combined
```bash
cd ~/archivebox_new
cd /path/to/archivebox_new
archivebox status
archivebox update --index-only # optionally update the snapshot index.{json,html} files
```
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