Migrate Alfresco 2.1 from windows to Linux

mouldy63 — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 19:21:37 GMT

I'm after a bit of advice. I have a very old Alfresco installation, details below. It's been customised quite a lot. I'm looking to move it (and preferably upgrade it) to a Linux box, probably Redhat. What's the best way to go about this? I would imagine that the version is so old that upgrading it

Re: Migrate Alfresco 2.1 from windows to Linux

michaelböckling — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 17:10:00 GMT

Hi Mouldy,

wow, that version is ancient!

If the system is customized too heavily, simply moving it to linux shouldn't be much of a problem. I would try this:
<ul>
<li>install a plain 2.1 Alfresco on Linux, start it up and make sure everything works as it should (ImageMagick, OpenOffice etc.)</li>
<li>stop the plain version and delete all data (contentstore, db & index) and the Alfresco webapp</li>
<li>make a full backup of the current system, which means: contentstore, db, index and application code</li>
<li>move the backup files to the linux system</li>
<li>copy all the old code including customisations to the empty tomcat instance</li>
<li>strt your new instance and hope for the best </li>
</ul>
If you use the Alfresco provided Linux distributions to setup the plain instance, the problematic parts should be taken care of, like CIFS native code etc.

The backup is actually pretty straightforward. You just have to copy the Lucene index, the content store and do a database dump, and thats pretty much it. If you do it while Alfresco is shut down, theres not much that can go wrong, assuming your DB runs on Linux as well (MySQL instead of SQL Server).
All your code should be in tomcat/shared/classes and tomcat/webapps/alfresco, so if you copy that, you should be covered.

Best regards,
Michael Böckling

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