[Pulp-list] Moving a Pulp instance to another server?

[Nick Coghlan]

On 11/30/2011 11:43 PM, Jay Dobies wrote:
> On 11/30/2011 02:31 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I need to migrate a Pulp instance to a different physical machine. Is
>> there an existing list anywhere of what files need to be migrated to
>> bring the new instance up with the same data stored?
>>
>> The configurations files in /etc/pulp obviously need to be saved and
>> restored, but I'm not sure what needs to be copied to preserve:
>> - the MongoDB data store
>> - the actual repo contents
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Nick.
>
> I've personally never done it and I'm not sure that list exists.
>
> Tepo contents (and all the stuff you'll need for plugins and the like)
> are all under /var/lib/pulp. That part is easy.
>
> Mongo I _think_ is as simple as /var/lib/mongodb. You'll see in there
> pulp_database.{0,1,ns} which I'd guess is the entire database contents,
> but I don't know that for a fact.

OK, I'll try copying those 3 (/etc/pulp, /var/lib/pulp, 
/var/lib/mongodb), along with the Apache and iptables config, into a 
fresh VM and see if it comes up correctly.

Successful or not, I'll report the results back here.

Cheers,
Nick.

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Nick Coghlan
Red Hat Engineering Operations, Brisbane