[Dxspider-support] DXSpider on CentOS 7.x?

[Dirk Koopman]

On 29/03/16 22:10, Michael Carper, Ph.D. wrote:
> Hmmm... that occurred to me also (which is the way I normally do this 
> with Windows servers).
>
> Is there no more to the exercise except copying the /spider tree over? 
>  (ie. I'm not really a "Linux guy")
>
>

Not normally. There may be an issue with the user, usdb and qsl data 
files because of incompatibilities between different versions of 
Berkeley database file formats and/or Storable versions. But, to a large 
extent, these are now a thing of the past. But if you need to: the first 
two can be easily regenerated (from the user_asc and pretending to do an 
"update" for usdb), the "live data" qsl info that is collected 
automatically can be regenerated using /spider/perl/create_qsl.pl. If 
you have many spots, it can take a while - I have been collecting them 
since 1997 :-).

If you have the two machines side by side and there a network 
connection, the easiest way to replicate is to login as the "sysop" user 
to the new box then:

$ cd /spider
$ rsync -avz sysop at oldbox:/spider/* .

When you try start cluster.pl you will probably find that there are 
packages that you have forgotten to load (I always do anyway). Just load 
the missing packages and, with a following wind, it should all just 
spring into life.