moving content

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Hello all,

I have a problem in a sever running alfresco 3.4.0, I can't connect to it because of a hardware problem, thus I want to move the content to another server, would it be better to:

-make a migration(I can't find the set up file with the same version 3.4.0)

-make an upgrade in old server to recent version and then migrate to the new server

or if you have any beter suggestion

thanks in advance

afaust

The WARs for 3.4 can still be found on artifacts.alfresco.com (i.e. https://artifacts.alfresco.com/nexus/service/local/repo_groups/public/content/org/alfresco/alfresco/3.4.e/alfresco-3.4.e… ) and installers are still available via Community file list 3.4.d. The main question is only which of the 3.4 versions you need. 3.4 Community edition has had about 5 releases (labeled a through e). You may have also used the 3.4.0 Enterprise Edition version, which you cann still find on the support portal for Enterprise customers.

Also, with regards to moving the content: This will only be possible if you can connect to the existing server at least via SSH / SCP (if using Linux) or RDP (if using Windows). When you cannot connect at all (due to the hardware problem), then I hope you have setup an external database and content storage because otherwise there will be no chance at all to migrate unless you fix the connectivity issues.

Ideally, you would first do an "as-is" move using the exact same version of Alfresco. Only if you have successfully recovered your current data/system and can access your (restored) system just fine should you consider doing an upgrade. Otherwise if problems come up you may have difficulties in determining if the problems are due to an incorrect data recovery or a result of the actual upgrade.