friendica/doc/Migrate.md

Migrating to a new server

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Preparation

Head up to users

Inform your users of an upcoming interruption to your service. To ensure no loss of data, your server needs to be offline during some part of the migration processes.

You may find these addons useful for in communicating with your users prior to the migration process:

• blackout
• notifyall

Storage

Check your storage backend with bin/console storage list in the root folder.

If you are not currently using Database run the following commands:

1. bin/console storage set Database to active the database backend.
2. bin/console storage move to initiate moving the stored image files.

This process may take a long time depending on the size of your storage.

Cleaning up

[Removing expired items]

To review the size of your database, log into MySQL with mysql -p run the following query:

SELECT table_schema AS "Database", SUM(data_length + index_length) / 1024 / 1024 / 1024 AS "Size (GB)" FROM information_schema.TABLES GROUP BY table_schema;

You should see an out like this:

+--------------------+----------------+
| Database           | Size (GB)      |
+--------------------+----------------+
| friendica          | 8.054092407227 |
| [..........]       | [...........]  |
+--------------------+----------------+

Configuration files

Go offline

Take your web server offline.

Dumping DB

Transferring to new installation