Mirroring¶
Indexes can be exported as FUSE
filesystems. Using the management command mountindex
we could export the
previous example index as follows:
mkdir -p ~/indexes/products
mayan-edms.py mountindex product-sheets-per-year ~/indexes/products
Note
The mountindex
command works in a similar way to the operating system
mount
command. That is, it will not produce output when used. However,
unlike the mount
command, it will run in the foreground which might
give the impression of the command “freezing” and not working. It is also
possible to use the &
operator to run mountindex
in the background.
The ~/indexes/products
directory will now have a directory and files structure
identical to that of the index. Once indexes are mounted with this command, they
behave like any other filesystem directory and can even be further shared
via the network with network file system software like
Samba or
NFS.
Indexes and mirrored indexes are Read Only as they are generated as a result of prior activities like document uploads, metadata changes.