EPrints 2.3 Documentation - erase_archive command

- NAME
- SYNOPSIS
- DESCRIPTION
- ARGUMENTS
- OPTIONS
- BUGS

# NAME

erase_archive - Erase all database tables and files associated with an EPrint repository

# SYNOPSIS

erase_archive repository_id [options]

# DESCRIPTION

This script completely erases the repository contents, including all database tables and eprint document files and the web site. After running this, the metadata configuration can be safely updated and the creation scripts run again.

Without the --force option, this script asks for confirmation before actually erasing anything.

After this script you will need to run create_tables before you can use the repository.

# ARGUMENTS

repository_id

  The ID of the eprint repository to use.

# OPTIONS

--help

  Print a brief help message and exit.

--man

  Print the full manual page and then exit.

--quiet

  Be vewwy vewwy quiet. This option will supress all output unless an error occurs.

--verbose

  Explain in detail what is going on. May be repeated for greater effect.

--version

  Output version information and exit.

--force

  Don't ask before making the changes.

--noerasedb

  Don't delete the database tables.

--noerasefiles

  Don't erase the document and website files.

--rootpass password

  This option allows you to specify the MySQL root password, which will skip the bit where you get asked for it. It's not very secure to put a root password on the command line. Consider yourself warned...

# BUGS

This script assumes that the root mysql user is called root.

You may run into problems if your mysql install is not on the same machine as EPrints. If this happens use --noerasefiles and delete and recreate the database yourself.

You can specify --noerasedb and --noerasefiles at the same time, but that's really stupid, as then nothing will happen.

EPrints 2.3 Documentation - erase_archive command