[Opensim-users] Matching, mapping user UUIDs between servers

[Rick Anderson]

And and the working back up tar command was:
tar cvzf ../q3.oar  archive.xml assets/ landdata/ objects/ settings/
terrains/


On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Rick Anderson <rianders at docs.rutgers.edu>wrote:

> Thank you. Given this advice, and the very kind people in the reply I've
> got this is working now.
>
> I've also found that I had done the import several times for testing, and
>  discovered an issue where an edited import of an oar file doesn't update
> because it's thought to already exist because of a previous import.
>
> --Rick
>
>
> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 5:23 PM, Justin Clark-Casey <
> jjustincc at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> You can manually create a new user using the "create user" command which
>> will let you supply a UUID.  There are also ways of doing this through
>> services [1] if you can secure the API.  Unfortunately, there's currently
>> no way to migrate a whole user in a single package, inventory and all.
>>
>> As other people have replied - changing all the relevant UUIDs in the
>> OARs should also work.  The oar (tar.gz) loader in OpenSimulator can be a
>> bit finicky - I believe the directories must end with a / in their names,
>> for instance.  There is information on the format at [2] (I confess I just
>> added the information that archive.xml must come first since that wasn't
>> there).
>>
>> [1] http://opensimulator.org/wiki/**UserAccountService#createuser<http://opensimulator.org/wiki/UserAccountService#createuser>
>> [2] http://opensimulator.org/wiki/**OAR_Format_0.8<http://opensimulator.org/wiki/OAR_Format_0.8>
>>
>>
>> On 27/05/13 23:33, Rick Anderson wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I've been moving and creating some new servers by migrating the OAR
>>> data. Even, if the OAR backup has the correct user
>>> permissions it's for my old grid and not the new one.
>>>
>>> Is there a way to migrate that creator/owner user to a new system and
>>> keep their UUID?
>>>
>>> Or should I look up the UUID for the new version of the user and use
>>> script to update the UUID in the OAR files before
>>> importing the UUID?
>>>
>>> Is there a third better way? Maybe, if the own Hypergrids there is there
>>> a record of them as user to refer to?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> --Rick
>>>
>>> --
>>> Rick Anderson
>>> Director of Virtual Worlds
>>> Division of Continuing Studies (DoCS)
>>> Rutgers University
>>> (732) 586-3265
>>>
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>>
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>
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> Rutgers University
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Rick Anderson
Director of Virtual Worlds
Division of Continuing Studies (DoCS)
Rutgers University
(732) 586-3265
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