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Re: backup/restore an Eclipse application environment [message #1770960 is a reply to message #668043] |
Sat, 19 August 2017 21:40 |
Ben Voris Messages: 5 Registered: August 2017 |
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I too am struggling to find a way to recreate an Eclipse environment in less than several hours. Thus far, the only approach that has worked for me has been to install a fresh copy of Eclipse, reconfigure the plugins, shutdown, and then copy in a backup of the workspace.
https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/m/801085/ says that "workspaces aren't transportable to the new environment", but does not seem to say (as least in a way that I understand) if that is a general issue or if there is something specific to that question that keeps them from being portable. Nor does is provide a reference as to why they are not portable. However, it seems to me that workspaces are sometimes portable as I've been able to move them between Windows 7 and Windows 10 when running the same Eclipse version on a 64-bit version of Java. However, as I say, both systems installed Eclipse from scratch.
It seems to me that, at least on MS-Windows, there are some directories involved beyond %USERPROFILE%\.eclipse, and I don't know how to find them all or if they are portable or not.
For example, I cannot move an egit setup between systems. The git repositories, themselves, move without difficulty and can be manipulated in Cygwin. egit sees the repositories, but the team view seems broken in ways I don't understand.
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Re: backup/restore an Eclipse application environment [message #1772616 is a reply to message #1770960] |
Wed, 13 September 2017 07:19 |
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If restoring from local history does not work, then you are out of luck i'm afraid.. the point of deleting files, is to DELETE them.. not ever needing them back. my suggestion is be more careful when deleting and use a Source Control Management software like SVN or Git, so you can version your files to prevent things like this from happening again.
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