Moving a Database to Another Location
Pre-requisites:
To move a CentraSite database through the CentraSite Command Line Interface, you must have the CentraSite Administrator role.
Under certain circumstances you might wish to move a CentraSite database from an existing CentraSite installation into another CentraSite installation, either on the same machine or on a different machine. Examples of such situations are:
When resources for processing become insufficient.
In a disaster recovery scenario.
As part of a side-by-side product installation, whereby two versions of
CentraSite can exist on the same machine.
Moving a CentraSite database to another machine is not supported in the following scenarios:
if the architectures of the source and the target machine is with different byte orders (big-endian versus little-endian)
if the source machine is a UNIX system and the target machine is a Windows system.
If you are not sure whether moving a database is supported in your environment, contact a technical representative of Software AG.
The CentraSite registry or repository contains environment-dependent data. This data has to be adjusted to the new environment when the data is moved to another machine.
CentraSite provides a command tool named MoveCentraSiteRR for this purpose. The tool allows you to create a new database from an existing backup and to modify the data to the needs of the new environment.
The steps performed by the command tool are:
Calculate database space sizes
Delete the existing
CentraSite database
Create a new
CentraSite database
Adjust the environment specific data
Create a new backup containing the modifications
Important: The contents of the backup file overwrites the database of the target CentraSite installation.
To move the database to another location
Run the command MoveCentraSiteRR. The syntax is of the format: C:\SoftwareAG\CentraSite\bin\cfg>MoveCentraSiteRR.cmd backup-filename [data-space-location]
The input parameters are:
Parameter | Description |
backup-filename | (Optional). Name of the existing backup file. |
data-space-location | The absolute path to the CentraSite database. Default value is C:\SoftwareAG\CentraSite\data. |
Example (all in one line):
C:\SoftwareAG\CentraSite\bin\cfg>MoveCentraSiteRR.cmd C:\SoftwareAG\CentraSite\data\AAB00001001461149722.2B0 C:\SOAPlatform\CentraSite\data