restoration of alfresco to another machine its not starting

[vvm]

We tried to migrate the production alfresco 1.4 version to another Linux machine.

We took the entire folder structure inckluding alf_data from production and restored into new machine.

Then we insatllaed mysql 5.0

and then we started up the server , we are getting error: connection refused.

Can u tell us what the problem is?

In the restoration steps mentioned in alfresco it was said to take both alf_data and database backup together.

we didn't take the databse backup…..

Is the problem because of that.

[pmonks]

Without the database backup the system will not come up.  As stated right at the top of the backup & restore page on the wiki (http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Backup_and_Restore😞

Backing up an Alfresco repository involves backing up both the directory pointed to by the dir.root setting AND the database Alfresco is configured to use, as if they were a single unit. Backing up either one without the other results in a backup that cannot be successfully restored.

(extra emphasis added to highlight the relevant information)

That said, this is unlikely to be causing the connection refused error - that indicates that not only is Alfresco not starting but Tomcat isn't starting either.  Without seeing either an alfresco.log or a Tomcat log (and ideally both) that spans the time the server is starting, it's impossible to tell what's preventing Tomcat from starting.  Of course this is likely less of an issue than losing all of your content due to an incomplete backup…

Cheers,
Peter