Moving Gallery For New Install-Possible?
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mm12463
Joined: 2002-09-06
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Posted: Fri, 2002-09-06 04:19
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Hi - I have been using gallery for about 3 months now. Great program. I recently purchased a new machine from work. (P3 700 for $75! Great price to upgrade from a P266.) Problem is they removed all the hard drives. So I am going to need to reuse the new 10gig I have on the current machine and I figured I would reinstall FreeBSd and clean up from all the mistakes I have made on that machine. What I want to know is can I tar the gallery directory, save it off line and then move it to the new machine without having any problems? I figure I might need to go through the setup again, maybe reset some file permissions, but I would hate to lose all the photos, comments, descriptions and so forth. I can always upload them again but with over 1000 images from the last 3 months I rather not do that. Thanks for the help. Mike |
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It should transfer fine, just archive all the files and cp them to their
new location, re-run the configuration and you should be all set.
Just keep in mind the things you already mentioned.
And if you do run into difficulty, we're here to help :wink:
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As vallimar stated, this shouldn't cause any problems at all, I did the same thing some time ago with nearly no trouble... :smile:
I had trouble with the userdb, and had to delete it and recreate it and assign the permissions again. Thankfully I only had about 5 registered users in the Gallery. :smile:
But, I'm sure that this was unrelated to the moving of the gallery in the first place. Something went wrong, though.
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I've done it for so many times and different hosting, no problem ...
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Thanks everyone. Worked great. I was pretty sure it would work since it is basically just web data but I did not want to spend a weekend rebuilding everything. Again thanks for the help. First time I had to use tar to create an archive so I guess I learned something new.
Mike