topic Re: Migrating to new Server (Windows Server 2012R2) in Alfresco Archive

Migrating to new Server (Windows Server 2012R2)

thecatalyst — Thu, 17 Sep 2015 11:51:34 GMT

Hello, We set up an Alfresco installation on a temporary server to give it a try, and decided to move forward with it. However that requires moving it to a new permanent location.The documentation for exporting/importing the database contents seems to be a little vague and we never had much success.

Re: Migrating to new Server (Windows Server 2012R2)

rjohnson — Thu, 17 Sep 2015 14:50:33 GMT

Assuming you installed alfresco using all the defaults this should work:-

Install the same version of Alfresco on your new box accepting all the default and using samne UID / PWD etc
Stop Alfresco on your temp box (alfresco.bat stop)
Backup alf_data on your temp box
Stop Alfresco on your new box (alfresco.bat stop)
Rename alf_data on your new box to something else (just in case)
Restore alf_data to your new box
Restart your new box.

You should have your Alfresco moved. I have never done this on 5.0 but I expect it should work just as well.

If you have made any config changes through alfresco-global.properties you will need to copy these over as well, but there are (sometimes) key pointers in that file so I suggest cut & paste rather than file replace

Re: Migrating to new Server (Windows Server 2012R2)

thecatalyst — Thu, 17 Sep 2015 16:52:01 GMT

Nice and simple, thank you very much!

Re: Migrating to new Server (Windows Server 2012R2)

mdiaw — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 17:40:50 GMT

hello I have the same problem
only that I had installed windows 7 64bit Alfresco on how to migrate to Windows Server 2012