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

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