migrating from redhat to Windows

[ayesjm33]

I am trying to migrate my alfresco server from Redhat to windows. can someone point me in the right direction on how to do this. i already have the new windows server built up with alfresco running on it. i just need to migrate all the uploaded content from the redhat server to the new windows server.

any help would be appreciated.


thanks.

Joshua

[resplin]

Assuming you are using the same version of Alfresco on both machines, and that you are not making big changes to the technical stack you are using (not changing from MySQL to MS SQL Server, or anything like that), then I expect that you can just follow the backup and restore process documented here:

http://docs.alfresco.com/4.0/topic/com.alfresco.enterprise.doc/concepts/ch-backup-restore.html

* Migrate your database
* Migrate your content store
* Migrate your most recent index backup
* Start Alfresco and  let the index rebuild from the restored backup.

Changing your database will significantly complicate things. You will need to have Alfresco build a clean database on the target machine so that it can use schema optimizations for than specific database. You will then have to ETL from the old database to the new one.

Good luck.