Moving or duplicating a repository requires dump and load operations. Dump and load operations can be used to:
Move part of a repository from one location to another.
Duplicate part of a repository.
Use dump and load operations to create a duplicated repository with a different name or repository ID than the source repository.
Dump or load operations require superuser privileges. A dump operation creates a binary file of objects dumped from a repository. If a dumped object has associated content files, the content files are either referenced by full path or included directly in the dump file. The load operation loads the objects and content files into another repository.
Dump files are created by using the session code page. For example, if the session in which the dump file was created was using UTF-8, the dump file is a UTF-8 dump file. The repository into which the dump file is loaded must use the same code page the source repository.
Dump and load operations can be performed manually using either IAPI, Docbasic scripts, or the IDfDumpRecord and IDfLoadRecord DFC interfaces.
Dump and load operations require additional steps for repositories where Web Publisher is installed. Refer to the Web Publisher Deployment Guide for details.