.. _export:

Exporting
=========

- dump all records in pycsw repository
- use ``pycsw-admin.py`` to export all records to XML files on disk

.. code-block:: bash

  $ pycsw-admin.py -c export_records -f /path/to/default.cfg -p /tmp/metadata

- creates files in /tmp/metadata
- files are named by metadata record identifier

- want to import them back into another repository?

.. code-block:: bash

  $ pycsw-admin.py -c setup_db -f /path/to/default.cfg
  $ pycsw-admin.py -c load_records -f /path/to/default.cfg -p /tmp/metadata