[RAS] Migration Help

[Thomas Krichel]

  Ivan Kurmanov writes

> please copy the /home/aras/ directory over, and then dump the mysql
> databases "rdb" and "acis".

   I suggest not to do this. Erase the databases you already
  have and start anew. 

> Then tomorrow (after 1am EDT this night) copy over the
> /home/aras/backup/2011/08/26 directory.
> 
> That has update_db.tgz archive, which contains the RI directory. If
> unpacked while in ~/acis/, it would write the needed files into
> ~/acis/RI/data/... directory, and that is a safe way to move the data.

  I woulld be surprised if he can read the data in BDB, but 
  I have eaten my words before. 

> 
> Ideally, the mysql dump and RI/data dump would be created at about the
> same time with all data-modifying services taken down. But since this
> is not a final move, it is okay to do as written above.

  When we migrate, we should do it the ACIS way. rsync the ReDIF data
  files and the AMF CitEC files annd the ~/acis/userdata,
  as they are, and run the update daemon. 



  Cheers,

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