Zip a file geodatabase using ArcPy or Zipfile library

[MKF62]

Does anybody have a good method of doing this?

I've tried using the zipfile python library but am utterly confused on how to do it for a file geodatabase since it's not exactly a directory/file structure. My folder structure looks like so, I want to zip up the folder/geodatabase outlined in red:

I've tried this (all the indentation is correct in my script, don't know why GeoNet is changing it upon publishing the question):

import zipfile

#Creates the empty zip file and opens it for writing
myzipfile = zipfile.ZipFile("D:\GIS_Testing\HabitatDbase\MyZip.zip", 'w', zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED)
for root, dirs, files in os.walk("D:\GIS_Testing\HabitatDbase"):
 if root == "D:\GIS_Testing\HabitatDbase\HabitatData.gdb":
 for f in files:
 myzipfile.write(os.path.join(root, file))‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

I've also tried using shutil.make_archive and for some reason instead of zipping up my file geodatabase it zips up my python script file which is completely bewildering as I have no idea how it would even get the path to the script file...

I get a TypeError on the last line that says "object of type 'type' has no len()"

[AndyFairbairn]

shutil.make_archive(zipfilename, 'zip', root_dir = r"C:\folder\path\containing_fgdb", base_dir = "file_gdb_name.gdb")‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

This should avoid the need to have your file geodatabase in it's own subfolder before zipping, which I think is required in the above solution.

[tigerwoulds]

Old post but figured I'd post my solution incase it helps anyone else. This function will zip the geodatabase and skip any lock files. I was trying to implement the zip in a larger codebase and kept running into locks.

def zipGDB(inputGDB):
    gdbFile = str(inputGDB)
    outFile = gdbFile[0:-4] + '.zip'
    gdbName = os.path.basename(gdbFile)
    with zipfile.ZipFile(outFile, mode='w', compression=zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED, allowZip64=True) as myzip:
        for f in os.listdir(gdbFile):
            if f[-5:] != '.lock':
                myzip.write(os.path.join(gdbFile, f), gdbName + '\\' + os.path.basename(f))
    print('Completed zipping: {}'.format(gdbFile))

[DAVIDWADSWORTH_LVVWD]

Thanks for sharing.

[danashney]

Since this took me much longer to figure out than I care to admit:

The sample provided by TigerWoulds results in a copy of the inputGDB within a zipped folder of the same name. If you want to create a zipped copy without that nesting then remove

gdbName + '\\' + 

from the line

myzip.write(os.path.join(gdbFile, f), gdbName + '\\' + os.path.basename(f))

[patrick_shp]

Reviving an older thread, but there aren't too many helpful resources online about this topic...

I had issues utilizing tigerwoulds' script, so I tweaked the function a bit:

 

zip_geodatabase(input_geodatabase, output_zip)

def zip_geodatabase(input_geodatabase, output_zip):
     # Create a zip file
     with zipfile.ZipFile(output_zip, 'w') as zipf:
          # Iterate over all files in the geodatabase
          for root, dirs, files in os.walk(input_geodatabase):
               for file in files:
                    # Add each file to the zip file
                    file_path = os.path.join(root, file)
                    if file[-5:] != '.lock':
                         zipf.write(file_path, os.path.relpath(file_path, input_geodatabase))

#input_geodatabase = r"C:\Users\myfile.gdb"
#output_zip = r"C:\Users\myoutputfile.zip"
#zip_geodatabase(input_geodatabase, output_zip)
 

[patrick_shp]

Slight addendum:

You can't zip the .gdb file directly and upload to portal using this script. It must first be added to a subfolder by itself. So that means that input_geodatabase points to something like r"C:\Users\parent_folder", where "parent_folder" contains only the .gdb file. Hope that makes sense!