Moving jive messenger from one machine to another

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Hi,

I want to move the Jive Messenger Server from one machine to another. How do I backup all the users, groups etc and migrate them to the new machine?

Thanks,

Amit

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which operating system are you moving from and to?

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From Win XP to Win XP.

Thanks.

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Hey Amit,

You will need to copy the /conf folder. And if you are using the embedded database then you will also have to copy the embedded-db folder.

Optional stuff to copy are: plugins and logs folder.

Regards,

– Gato

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Oh, and if you are going to change the server name then you may want to change the property setup[/i] to false[/i] in the conf/jive-messenger.xml file. Restart the server, log into the admin console and follow the setup wizard.

– Gato

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Amit,

When I moved Jive from Windows 2K to 2K3 all I did was install a fresh copy of Jive (same version as Win2K) on Win2K3 but did not start it up. Then I copied over the config file, library files and my external protocols over to the win2k3 server overwriting any existing files. I then moved my SQL database from 2k to 2k3 servers and Jive started up just fine.

I did have to change the computer name in the config file to reflect the server change. But other than that it was fairly simple.

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Thanks a lot to everybody who replied. I was able to move the groups/users/settings without any problem

Thanks again,

Amit