Migrating to new Server (Windows Server 2012R2)

[thecatalyst]

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.

Can anyone point me towards a more detailed process in how to achieve these steps?

We are using the pre-set installation choices of Alfresco, so we will be using the PostgreSQL database. Using this installer alfresco-community-5.0.d-installer-win-x64


The end goal would be to obviously have a new Alfresco site up and running that is exact copy of the previous site. As well as be able to backup the database regularly, in case of emergency restore.


Thanks!

[rjohnson]

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

[thecatalyst]

Nice and simple, thank you very much!

[mdiaw]

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