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Migrating Alfresco from one machine to the other

akshayakher

Hi,

I have just started working with Alfresco…

I had a doubt regarding migrating data from one machine to the other…

I dont want to rework on the user database i create on my old machine..

I understand that all the data repository can be migrated my moving the alf_data folder to the new machine..but i am not very clear about the database in mysql…

I need help regarding this…

Any comments and help is appreciated..Thanks in advance…

Regards
Akshaya

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akshayakher

in reference to the above post i would like to add that the steps in server administaration for backup and restore are easy to understand but cannot find the

dir.root property is usually located in <configRoot>/alfresco/repository.properties.

please reply back

kevinr

This value is generally set to:
dir.root=./alf_data
On my installation it was found here:
\apache-tomcat-5.5.16\webapps\alfresco\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco\repository.properties

Hope this helps,

Kevin

akshayakher

Thanks Kevin,

So what I undersatand by this is for backup and restore…

step 1: Database should be copied to alf_data folder.

step 2: The copy of this folder should be then restored to the new machine.

Does the database mean the complete mysql folder or does it mean any particular file?

Akshaya

kevinr

No the database should not be copied into that folder.

The "alf_data" folder contains the lucene indexes and all the content files for your Alfresco Repository. The database contains the meta-data for the files.

You need to perform a FULL export of the "alfresco" schema from your existing MySQL and then import that into your new MySQL "alfresco" schema. Then you need to copy the contents of the "alf_data" directory from your existing machine to the new one.

If you get that right, it will work ok.

Thanks,

Kevin

akshayakher

Thanks Kevin…that is very useful…

akshayakher

I tried to migrate data from my old machine to the new one

1. I installed the same version of alfresco as in my old machine.
2. Copied and overwrote the alf_data folder from old machine to the new machine.

Now nothing seems to work. I cannot login even as admin.

Can you help me as to what has gone wrong with this…

Please somebody do reply

Thanks
Akshaya