Copying a Pentaho Report Repository Manually

Copying a existing report repository is an easy way to create another repository for use with a test or development database. It can also be a way to create a production repository from an erstwhile development version.

These are the steps I used on Linux:

1. Copy the repository
   

   
   cp -r repo-prod repo-dev
   

   
   
2. Edit the index.properties file in repo-dev and change the name property to give it a different name than the original.


3. Change the data source name to match the development one in each xaction file
   

   find . -name '*.xaction' | xargs sed -i 's/data-prod/data-dev/g'



4. Change the repository name in xaction files that have sub-actions
   

   find . -name '*.xaction' | xargs sed -i 's/repo-prod/repo-dev/g'



5. Change the image paths in the report design .xml files. cd into the directory first
   

   find . -name '*.xml' |xargs sed -i 's|/old/prefix/|/new/prefix/|'