Difference between revisions of "Moving or backup an installation"

Revision as of 09:10, 16 June 2012

To move Group-Office to another location move all files and the database into the new folder.

Note: All the directories here are examples. They are probably different in your case. On Debian, groupoffice scripts are in /etc/groupoffice (and not in /var/www). Packing up files at the old server

Create an archive of the Group-Office files:

$ tar czf groupoffice-scripts.tar.gz /var/www/groupoffice

Now determine where user files are stored:

$ cat config.php | grep file_storage_path
$config['file_storage_path']='/home/groupoffice/';

Now create archives of these paths (It might be that the local path is inside the Group-Office scripts directory. In that case you can skip the creation of the local archive):

$ tar czf groupoffice-files.tar.gz /home/groupoffice

This command outputs the database parameters:

$ cat config.php | grep db

$config['db_type']='mysql';
$config['db_host']='localhost';
$config['db_name']='groupoffice';
$config['db_user']='groupoffice';
$config['db_pass']='password';

Now create a dump of the database:

$ mysqldump --default-character-set=utf8 groupoffice -u groupoffice -p > groupoffice-20070813.sql

You might want to tar this file up to save bandwidth:

$ tar czf groupoffice-database.tar.gz groupoffice-20070813.sql

Now we packed up all nessecary files in archives:

1. groupoffice-scripts.tar.gz
2. groupoffice-files.tar.gz
3. groupoffice-database.tar.gz

To be on the safe side, you could also pack all modules (in case you don't move to a fresh Group-Office installation):

tar czf groupoffice-modules.tar.gz /usr/share/groupoffice

Installing the old files on the new server

Unpack the scripts, files and local archive in the new location:

$ cd /var/www/groupoffice
$ tar zxf groupoffice-scripts.tar.gz

$ cd /home/groupoffice
$ tar zxf groupoffice-files.tar.gz

$ cd /var/www/go-local
$ tar zxf groupoffice-local.tar.gz

Create a new database for Group-Office:

$ mysql -u root -p
mysql> CREATE DATABASE groupoffice;
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON groupoffice.* TO 'groupoffice'@'localhost'
-> IDENTIFIED BY 'some_pass' WITH GRANT OPTION;
mysql> exit

Add your old database structure and data to the new database:

mysql -u root -p groupoffice < dumpfile.sql

Now you need to run http://some_url_to_groupoffice.com/install/ and follow instructions to complete the install.

Good luck!