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I would like to move portal 6.2 to another virtual machine

Giannis Foufas, modified 2 Years ago.

I would like to move portal 6.2 to another virtual machine

New Member Posts: 7 Join Date: 7/3/13 Recent Posts

Hello,

I would like to clone an existing potal 6.2 EE installation to a disaser virtual machine.

We cloned the virtual machne and we aquited some license. Do we have to change any property files on the

disaster virtual machine such as hostname,IP etc?

​​​​​​​KR,

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Olaf Kock, modified 2 Years ago.

RE: I would like to move portal 6.2 to another virtual machine

Liferay Legend Posts: 6403 Join Date: 9/23/08 Recent Posts

You're basically asking "How to restore from backup", which - given that you're on 6.2 - you should long have demonstrated to make sure that your backups are worth their money.

In general: Look at your configuration - any changes that you need to do, specifically so that the new machine serves your traffic, depend a lot on your own situation.

You'll need to restore:

  • the application server
  • the database backup
  • Document Library filesystem (in case you store doclib in the filesystem, otherwise: whereever you store it)
  • any code deployed
  • the full-text index (alternatively: Execute "reindex all" upon startup)

And, of course, any DNS-settings, network routing etc - that would be environment-dependent.