id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	stage	has_patch	needs_docs	needs_tests	needs_better_patch	easy	ui_ux
20979	Serialize payload of model.FileField when using manage.py dumpdata	Jacob Rief	nobody	"I added a useful feature to **django-filer**, which allows to dump the payload of files together with their meta-data, when running
{{{manage.py dumpdata > dumpfile.json}}}
a dumpfile which later is reimported using
{{{manage.py loaddata dumpfile.json}}}
then also restores the payload of the file on disk, not just the meta-data. This simplifies backups and migrations of projects, since an administrator does not require additional tools such as zip or tar. It also makes backups less error prone, since everything is contained in one single file. In my opinion, such a feature would also be useful for {{{models.FileField}}} and {{{models.ImageField}}}.

If this feature is considered useful enough, I would be pleased to implement it into the Django's main code.
 
More details here: https://github.com/jrief/django-filer/blob/serialize-payload/docs/dump_payload.rst and here: https://github.com/stefanfoulis/django-filer/pull/335
"	New feature	closed	File uploads/storage	dev	Normal	wontfix			Unreviewed	0	0	0	0	0	0