[Dxspider-support] recorey of user data

[Dirk Koopman]

git reset --hard

That should end you up on the mojo branch with all changes applied.

Dirk

On 10/09/2020 22:56, Ricardo Suarez via Dxspider-support wrote:
> Hi, Dirk.
>
> Seems clear.
>
> I move the mojo brand new installation to spider.mojo
>
> Copy the old-fashion spider from the broken machine to the new one
>
> placed as sysop user on the new machine  I go to spider/data copied 
> from the old machine
>
> erase user.v3 and qsl.v1 and run user_asc
>
> erase .git directory and copy the .git directory from spider.mojo 
> moved spider, and do git reset
>
> correct?
>
> Regards
>
> Rick LU9DA
>
> p.s if not work, have the spider.mojo directory directory to rename...
>
>
> El 10/9/2020 a las 21:41, Dirk Koopman via Dxspider-support escribió:
>> The correct thing to do is copy the old spider tree to the new one.
>>
>> Assuming that you are using the 'sysop' and the spider tree is at 
>> /home/sysop/spider on both machines do this and I shall use the 
>> hostnames 'old' and 'new'. You should substitute these hosts to make 
>> it work for you:
>>
>> login/ssh to 'new' as sysop
>> check that you have installed 'rsync'; if not then install it.
>>
>> mv spider spider.mojo
>> rsync -avz old:spider .     # the lack of any / characters, don't 
>> forget to substitute the correct hostname for 'old'
>>
>> wait until that is finished. There may be errors.
>>
>> cd spider/data
>> rm users.v3 qsl.v1
>> perl user_asc
>>
>> cd ..
>> rm -rf .git
>> cp -a ../spider.mojo/.git .
>> git reset --hard
>>
>> cd perl
>> ./cluster.pl
>>
>> with a following wind that should just spring into life...
>>
>> If not get back to me off list and I will try to help you out further.
>>
>> But in general terms, if one wants move a spider installation to 
>> another machine, just copy the spider tree across to the new machine. 
>> If you want to upgrade it (on either branch) do that AFTER you have 
>> copied the tree (or as much as will go).
>>
>> It is important to rebuild the user file from a known good user_asc 
>> as this a major source of problems; which will hopefully happen much 
>> less frequently now that we are using JSON, rather than Storable as 
>> the serialisation mechanism.
>>
>> Dirk
>>
>> On 10/09/2020 21:56, Ricardo Suarez via Dxspider-support wrote:
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> After a fatal failure, I moving my spider to  a new server.
>>>
>>> Now is working in a industrial Intel Server, with Debian.
>>>
>>> Installed fresh DXspider and update to Mojo Branch, i need to 
>>> recover all users data and settings from
>>>
>>> the old machine, still working but with a lot of problems, before it 
>>> dead.
>>>
>>> How i do, are a step by step procedure to do the job?
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Rick LU9DA
>>>
>>>
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