RE: [cobalt-users] CMU to Migrate

["Jay Fesco" <jay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Unfortunately, I just but a new RAQ4 (sitting in my
home/office closet) and will be colocating at a local facility now. I need
to move this commercial boxes contents to the new one as smoothly as
possible. Currently running the new RAQ in-house on an internal router until
it goes colo.

Really concerned about a smooth transfer. I don't want to spend two weeks
through Christmas getting the box in perfect running order... any advice on
a smooth transfer this time?

Best regards,
Troy Arnold
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Troy - I just went through a transfer a little over a month ago (Raq3 at a
Colo moving to a Raq4 locally).  I used RaqBackUp.sh (which uses CMU) and it
took me about a day to move 90 sites and 30 databases (RaqBackUp.sh handles
MySQL as well as long as you're current on both boxes).

Thanks to a script kiddie I had the fun of manually restoring the Raq3 at
the beginning of 2001.  It took me about 3 days to get everything reloaded,
and then another 4 days to get it all configured correctly.

CMU did leave some things undone, but I read the faq (and the notes here)
and I was prepared for the manual stuff.  The most annoying thing was having
to rebuild all of my ChiliSoft connections, but that only took about an hour
because I took the time to print off all of my database definitions from the
status screens. (OK, 1.5 hours counting printing the stuff off).

I was pleasantly surprised to find that, since I was going to a new box, it
pretty much left my Site## structure in place (a big concern because I use
the File Upload component in ChiliSoft quite often, and I hardcode a
physical path instead of walking up the directory).  It also set other
permissions properly (CGI, etc.)

No, it ain't perfect, but it beats doing it all manually.

Good Luck!

Jay Fesco