Moving a certain Alfresco site to another instance

[nettania]

Hello,

I hope somenone can help me. Is there a possibility to move/export a certain alfresco site (including all details, like description, categories) to another server/instance? There are no smartfolder or other customizations.

Thanks,

Florian

[abhinavmishra14 · Accepted solution]

yes, the "import" and "export" works and should work with 6.x Versions. These actions are still available.

[jpotts]

It depends on how big your site is. If it is no more than a few hundred MB in total you might be able to do an ACP export and then an ACP import on the other instance.

Take a look at this blog post from Formtek:

https://formtektips.blogspot.com/2016/11/import-and-export-of-alfresco-acp-files.html

If that doesn't work for you you'll have to do your own export/import which you could script with CMIS or the public REST API.

[nettania]

Thanks, is this also working for Alfresco 6?

Thanks,

Florian

[abhinavmishra14 · Accepted solution]

yes, the "import" and "export" works and should work with 6.x Versions. These actions are still available.

[abhinavmishra14 · Accepted solution]

There is an AddOn on github called "alfresco-share-import-export" , It allows exporting and importing from Admin console via Share UI. I have upgraded the AddOn to work with ACS 6.x. You can use this AddOn 

https://github.com/abhinavmishra14/alfresco-share-import-export/tree/sdk4.1

[nettania]

Thank you for your help, fantastic!

Florian

[lukas_klug]

I’m trying to move a site from an Alfresco Community 5.2.0 to an Alfresco Community 6.2.

Will this addon work with this version difference?

[EddieMay]

Hi @lukas_klug 

I think what you are wanting to do is to upgrade from 5.2 to 6.2 - which is different. 

[lukas_klug]

Thank you for your replay.

I have two Alfresco Instances (5.2 and 6.2) from two different companies.

Now I want to move a site from 5.2 to 6.2 because of some project migration to an other company. Is this possible or do we have to move all data by hand?

Best regards Lukas