Moving a Database to Another Location
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/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 that 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 will overwrite the database of the target CentraSite installation. |
You run this command in the CentraSite command line interface: MoveCentraSiteRR.cmd (Windows) or MoveCentraSiteRR.sh (UNIX). The tool is located in the directory <CentraSiteInstallDir>\bin\cfg.
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:
C:\SoftwareAG\CentraSite\bin\cfg> MoveCentraSiteRR.cmd C:\SoftwareAG\CentraSite\data\AAB00001001461149722.2B0 C:\SOAPlatform\CentraSite\data
