Moving Alfresco Package to another Machine

[alihammad]

Hello there,

I am one week old in Alfresco .. I was working on my computer since one week . In this period I did alot of work regarding installation, configuration , creating spaces, rules, forums etc and now I am studying about Extending Alfresco Content Model.

The problem is that I have to shift my work to another machine. I copied the whole alfresco- 3.1- tomcat extracted folder to the other machine expecting that all my spaces, forums, users, groups and rules etc will be maintained. But when I started Alfresco on the other machine, it looked as if I have extracted a fresh copy of Alfresco. Nothing is maintained and I have to create everything from scratch. This is to torturous, really

I had not configured MySQL with it and used the Derby setting as it. In other words I extracted the Alfresco 3.1 Enterprise tomcat bundle and started alfresco.

Plz suggest how can I get back all that data on the other machine, so that I could start my work where I left it.


I hope I made myself clear.

Thanks and Regards,

Ali Hammad

[alihammad]

Is my question unclear? I want some help on this urgently.

thanks

[mikeh]

Did you copy the entire alf_data folder?

Mike

[mrogers]

And you need to copy the database to your new machine.   Or better yet set up a separate instance of mysql.

[alihammad]

[img]http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/6763/alfrescofolder.jpg[/img]

yes i have copied the entire Alfresco folder and it contains alf_data folder as well .

Plz have a look at the image, i copied this entire folder to the other computer.

Thanks for you reply.

[alihammad]

I did not install any database like MySQL etc, but I just used the bundle as it is . That mean s Alfresco is using derby, but the derby data must be stored within this folder, doesn't it? And if i copy the entire folder, database should also be copied.

Thanks for your help.