It works with a manual trick

mfoss — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 15:28:34 +0000

francis wrote:

So binary restore works and text restore certainly does not seem to.

You are right, I can repeat the same problem with ejabberd SVN and Erlang R11B-2 (Debian unstable).

When the text dump is generated, some entries are like:

{route,"pubsub.localhost",<0.344.0>,undefined}.
{route,"echo.localhost",<0.332.0>,undefined}.

Later, when ejabberd tries to load that text dump, it fails with this error:

Error in line:193 of:"ejabberd.dump" syntax error before: '<'

If you remove all the lines that include '<', and try to load the file again, it will work correctly.

However, the Mnesia documentation recommends to use binary backups, not text dumps.

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