Restoring production gae data to the dev server

Question

Does anyone have a solution to restore production gae data to a dev server for testing? The Bulkuploader tool does not cater for models with Blob Properties. Any hints?

Answer 1

The bulkloader works fine with blob properties, as long as you either use the --dump / --restore syntax, which doesn't require interpreting your models, or you take care to encode and decode blobs in the output format - for instance, by using base64.