Forum LAMS for Tech-Heads - General Forum: Backup/copying a lams install

By: Ernie Ghiglione

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Hi Dave,

If you want to copy a running LAMS instance to then do an upgrade, you need:

1.- the LAMS database dump
2.- copy the entire jboss directory
3.- copy the LAMS data directory

and I think that's pretty much it.

On the new server:

1.- create the database and the database user that you had for the old server.
2.- import the db dump
3.- put the jboss directory (in the exact same location as you had it on the old server)
4.- copy the LAMS data directory (in the exact same location as you had it on the old server).

Once you start it, I assume that the server URL is different. So you might want to login as sysadmin go to the sysadmin menu --> change system settings and modify the server url.

If this is all good, then you can use the LAMS installers/upgraders to test. It should create backups automatically before you perform an upgrade.

Thanks

Ernie

Posted by Ernie Ghiglione

By: Dave Bauer

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Thanks I'll try that!

Posted by Dave Bauer

By: Fiona Malikoff

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Dave,

I'm posting this more for the future reference of people finding this thread later.

There are also a few notes on this on:

http://wiki.lamsfoundation.org/display/lamsdocs/Revert+To+Other+Backup

The title of the document probably isn't the best!

If you are doing a backup to restore later (rather than testing the upgrader as you are) then there are a couple of other things that need to be backed up / set up when the copy is done.

Fiona

Posted by Fiona Malikoff

By: Dave Bauer

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Ok i have the copy running OK, and I upgraded it.
WHen I try to run the author tool i see it tries to access the OLD url when the original server was running not the new url where the copy is running.

What do I have to edit to change the URL lams is running under? I searched in the jboss/server/default/conf directory and did not see the domain set. Perhaps its set in the mysql database?

Posted by Dave Bauer

By: Dave Bauer

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Answering my own question!

update lams_configuration set config_value='http://newurl' where config_key='ServerURL';

Posted by Dave Bauer