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venkat-rk

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How to install for a demo?
June 18, 2007, 10:56:26 pm
I can install CiviCRM easily enough, but I am wondering how to do it so that the sample data created by users is wiped clean automatically every hour or so. Is there a module that does this?

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Venkat

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Re: How to install for a demo?
June 19, 2007, 12:04:42 am
We don’t have any automatic approach to this. Your best bet would be to create the demo install, get it to the desired ‘clean’ state, dump the database and then reload it ‘every hour or so.’

Note that mysqldump by default creates a database dump that drops the tables and rebuilds them prior to reloading the data, so it quite suited for the above task.
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venkat-rk

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Re: How to install for a demo?
June 22, 2007, 08:17:30 pm
Thanks for the tip.

There's a nifty module (http://drupal.org/project/demo) that does all this automatically, but it depends on the drupal dba module which hasn't been ported to drupal 5.0 yet.
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