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Moving entire site to a new machine

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Rushian 0
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Moving entire site to a new machine

I am currently self-hosted on a Windows box.

The hardware is almost 5 years old (running WinNT and IIS4 no less) Smiling Face, and really starting to show its age, so I will be building a new machine to run the website.

How do I move the databases to the new machine? Is it as easy as copying all the storyteller databases from my /mysql/data/ folder to the new machine? (Assuming the db username and passwords are set up the same on the new machine?)

Is there a better or more sophisticated way of doing it?

Thanks,
-Rushian

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Moving entire site to a new machine

Ok, great! Thanks!
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Moving entire site to a new machine

I would dump the database to a SQL file:
mysqldump -uusername -ppassword database > database.sql

You need to replace username with your MySQL username, password with your MySQL password, and database with the database name.

Then import the SQL file on the new machine:
mysql -uusername -ppassword database < database.sql

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