[Dxspider-support] Transfer spider

[Ricardo Suarez]

Thanks a lot, Dirk, the second option as worked fine.

Regards

Rick LU9DA

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dirk Koopman G1TLH" <gb7tlh at dxcluster.org>
To: "The DXSpider Support list" <dxspider-support at dxcluster.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2011 4:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Dxspider-support] Transfer spider


> On 09/04/11 15:26, Ricardo Suarez wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I want to transfer the spider to a new PC, form Debian Etch to new
>> installation Debian Lenny.
>>
>> How I transfer the users to the fresh Spider installation?
>>
> 
> I am presuming that you have cloned your entire /spider tree to your new 
> computer and that includes /spider/data with one or more 
> /spider/data/user_asc* files.
> 
> The first thing to do is to try it as it is. If you are using Debian and 
> it is the same cpu architecture, it should just work. If it does not, 
> then do this:
> 
> * stop the node on the new machine
> * cd /spider/data
> * rm users.v3
> * perl /user_asc
> * restart the node.
> 
> If it did not "just work" then the chances are that you will have 
> problems with your dxsql database as well.
> 
> If you don't use it then you can just delete /spider/data/qsl.v1, 
> otherwise you will need to export the database from your old machine and 
> import it on the new one. Sometimes this can produce a HUUUUUGE file so 
> it may not be practical and you will just have delete it anyway and 
> build it up again over time. Do 'help dxqsl_export' and/or 
> 'dxqsl_import' for more info.
> 
> Dirk
> 
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