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Add note telling people about MusicBrainz sample dumps to docs
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paramsingh committed Feb 13, 2018
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Expand Up @@ -80,6 +80,12 @@ begin the import for the MusicBrainz database::
$ docker-compose -f docker/docker-compose.dev.yml run -v $DUMPS_DIR:/home/musicbrainz/dumps \
-v $PWD/data/mbdata:/var/lib/postgresql/data/pgdata musicbrainz_db

You can also use the smaller sample dumps available at
http://ftp.musicbrainz.org/pub/musicbrainz/data/sample/ to set up the MusicBrainz database.
However, note that these dumps are .tar.xz dumps while CritiqueBrainz currently only
supports import of .tar.bz2 dumps. So, a decompression of the sample dumps and recompression
into .tar.bz2 dumps will be needed.

.. warning::

Keep in mind that this process is very time consuming, so make sure that you don't delete
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