Voyager MarcExport best practices, timing and space considerations
- Product: Voyager
- Relevant for Installation Type: Multi-Tenant Direct, Dedicated-Direct, Local, TotalCare
Question
I want to export our entire database. Are there best practices or other considerations?
Answer
TIMING: Depends on the size of your database. Try exporting a reasonably sized subset of records and analyze the time it takes, apply those results to total number of records.
SPACE: For very large databases, exporting in several ranges of record IDs is recommended (i.e., -mR -tNNNN-NNNN (where NNNN is the bib_id; for example -t1-20000 would export bib_ids 1-20000). As with timing, export X number of records will allow estimate of how large files will be for total number of records.
BEST PRACTICES: For large jobs consider running during non-peak hours. Keep an eye on your available diskspace so you do not run out of space.
Additional Information
See the Technical User's Guide for a full explanation of the Bulk Export of MARC records.
- Article last edited: 19-Sep-2019