backup and restore options for GAE/J

Question

I know that utilities for backup and restore are in the GAE future roadmap, but until then I need to do some backup/restore operations on the data store of my GAE/J application. I found some info on how to enable the remote API for GAE/J applications by setting up the RemoteServlet in the application's web.xml and then you should be able to use the bulkloader.py tool from the python sdk to do backup/restore operation on the datastore of a GAE/J app (see here). I've added the remote API servlet in the web.xml, deployed it and the remote API seems to be active since I get the "This request did not contain a necessary header" message in the browser. However when trying to use the bulkloader.py tool with the remote url and my developer credentials, I get an message from the python tool: URLError: (urlopen error (10060, 'Operation timed out')) with the Authentication Failed info message. Did any one encountered this problem and managed to solve it? Some pointers would be very much appreciated.

Thanks, Mihai

Answer 1

I found the problem. It was the company proxy, so I requested the URL of my app be removed from the proxy.

Answer 2

Have you tried GAEBAR