Moving accounts between servers

General Interworx Control Panel Info General Inquries
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Hi All,

We are looking at migrating our InterWorx server onto a new box in a different datacentre.

I was just wondering if someone could either confirm or tear apart the following method for moving accounts:

1 setup second server with trial/new Interworx licence
2 setup clustering between both servers with old server as the master
3 push the accounts and their contents over
4 promote the new server to the cluster master
5 remove the old server from the cluster, before transfering licence to new machine/revoking old licence.

Any advice much appreciated, as we have a few accounts that we need to move. None have dedicated IPs or anything like that, so that side of things should be no problem.

Thanks,

Jon

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Is the new server going to be part of a cluster?

I don’t think this approach will work becuase the new server will be a node and will therefore only access the data on the master server. Wouldn’t the best way be to setup the new server as a standalone server and use the Mass Import tool in interworx to bring the accounts over?

3

Yea,

That perhaps is a better idea. Does the mass import tool move things such as client SQL databases over too though?

Jon

4

Yup, everything. And Interworx <> InterWorx mass transfers tend to be really very smooth :slight_smile:

5

Thanks for the info.

6

Hey hacman, I meant to respond sooner but being that it is Thanksgiving in the US I was full of turkey and semi-conscious. :smiley:

Using the Mass-Import tool should seamlessly transfer SiteWorx accounts even over a WAN (although that may take a bit longer). If you have any problems with the Mass Import feel free to file a support ticket and we’ll do our best get it sorted.