topic Trouble Restoring Alfresco CE 3.3 in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/trouble-restoring-alfresco-ce-3-3/m-p/271124#M224254 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I had Alfresco Community Edition ver. 3.3 running on a virtual instance of Ubuntu 10.10 Server 32bit. </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>After discovering we can run it on a 64 bit version of VM of Ubuntu Server and should see some performance gains I want to move everything over to the new VM.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>So I follow these steps</SPAN><A href="http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Backup_and_Restore#Cold_Backup_Procedure" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Backup_and_Restore#Cold_Backup_Procedure</A><SPAN> to do a cold backup and restore</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>1. Stop Alfresco on the 32 bit VM</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>2. Take a backup of the MYSQL alfresco db (mysqldump -u root -ppword alfresco &gt; alfrescodump.sql</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>3. Backup the dir.root directory as specified in the alfresco.global.properties file (tar -cvzf /opt/backupfile.gz /opt/alfresco/alf_data)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>4. I FTP both files in Binary mode over to the new 64 bit Ubuntu VM on which I have already installed the same version of Alfresco 3.3 CE and can successfully log in to </SPAN><A href="http://64bitservername:8080/share" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://64bitservername:8080/share</A><BR /><SPAN>5. I stop alfresco on the 64bit VM (/opt/alfresco/alfresco.sh stop)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>5. The current Alfresco install on the 64 bit Ubuntu version has the same dir.root dir specified in it's alfresco.global.properties file so I extract the alf_data and overwrite (tar zxvf /opt/backupfile.gz –overwrite)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>6. I create an alfresco DB on the 64 bit VM (mysql -u root -ppword then Create database alfresco)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>7. I restore the alfresco db (mysql -u root -ppword &lt; alfrescodump.sql)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>8. I start alfresco (/opt/alfresco/alfresco.sh start)</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>but when I go to </SPAN><A href="http://64bitServerIP:8080/share" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://64bitServerIP:8080/share</A><SPAN> I get this error</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>java.io.IOException: Unable to test document path: alfresco/site-data/configurations/slingshot.site.configuration.xml in remote store: alfresco due to error: 404 </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;org.springframework.extensions.webscripts.RemoteStore.hasDocument(RemoteStore.java:347)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;org.springframework.extensions.surf.persister.PathStoreObjectPersister.getObject(PathStoreObjectPersister.java:216)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;org.springframework.extensions.surf.persister.MultiObjectPersister.getObject(MultiObjectPersister.java:98)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;org.springframework.extensions.surf.ObjectPersistenceService.getObject(ObjectPersistenceService.java:126)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;org.springframework.extensions.surf.ModelObjectService.getObject(ModelObjectService.java:507)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;org.springframework.extensions.surf.ModelObjectService.getConfiguration(ModelObjectService.java:135)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;org.springframework.extensions.surf.site.SiteUtil.getSiteConfiguration(SiteUtil.java:99)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;org.springframework.extensions.surf.support.AbstractRequestContext.getSiteConfiguration(AbstractRequestContext.java:138)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;org.springframework.extensions.surf.mvc.ThemeInterceptor.preHandle(ThemeInterceptor.java:66)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.WebRequestHandlerInterceptorAdapter.preHandle(WebRequestHandlerInterceptorAdapter.java:54)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:761)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:716)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:647)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doGet(FrameworkServlet.java:552)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:617)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Also of note is the the new 64bit VM is using the same ip old 32 bit VM. Obviously I shutsown the 32bit VM before bringing up the 64 bit VM.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>What am I doing wrong?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:11:24 GMT deekay 2011-03-10T15:11:24Z Trouble Restoring Alfresco CE 3.3 https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/trouble-restoring-alfresco-ce-3-3/m-p/271124#M224254 I had Alfresco Community Edition ver. 3.3 running on a virtual instance of Ubuntu 10.10 Server 32bit. After discovering we can run it on a 64 bit version of VM of Ubuntu Server and should see some performance gains I want to move everything over to the new VM.So I follow these stepshttp://wiki.alfre Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:11:24 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/trouble-restoring-alfresco-ce-3-3/m-p/271124#M224254 deekay 2011-03-10T15:11:24Z Re: Trouble Restoring Alfresco CE 3.3 https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/trouble-restoring-alfresco-ce-3-3/m-p/271125#M224255 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I thought there might be some problems with that procedure!</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Take a look at </SPAN><A href="http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Talk:Backup_and_Restore" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Talk:Backup_and_Restore</A><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I've started to put some comments in there (and a diagram of some of the folder structure) covering other areas that should be covered or in a backup if you are going to have a hope of a working restore.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Note that I'm still trying to identify what I backup before I see if I can get it to work in a restore!</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>cheers</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 11 Mar 2011 07:45:59 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/trouble-restoring-alfresco-ce-3-3/m-p/271125#M224255 acommons 2011-03-11T07:45:59Z