Question

What is the recommended way of Migrating Twiki Servers? I recently bought a new server and want to move a portion of the Twiki content in the old server to the new server.

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-- EugeneIe - 01 Oct 2005

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When I move cntent back and forth between my development site (internal) and my production site (external) I just tar up what I need, usually directed by find, and scp it. When doing quick fixes I also move individual files with scp. I use scp because ftp and telnet are too great a security risk to have have running on any Internet facing machine.

You could equally well use zip or cpio.

Please note: sftp is not the same as ftp over ssh.

-- AntonAylward - 01 Oct 2005

You can copy content by the webs you need. For each web copy twiki/data/Someweb and twiki/pub/Someweb. If the new machine has a newer TWiki version you need to get the new system topics, see CopyWebsFromBeijingToCairo. To avoid users to re-register you could copy all users and groups from the old server's Main web to the new server.

-- PeterThoeny - 01 Oct 2005