Re: Moving a Plone installation

Call me conservative, but I'd be inclined to:

1) Do a fresh install on the new machine;

2) Make sure it works;

3) Copy the buildout.cfg (and any other .cfg files in your zinstance or
zeocluster directory) to the target;

4) Run buildout on the target;

5) Make sure it works;

6) Transfer the var subdirectory from the old machine to overwrite the var
subdirectory on the target;

7) Make sure it works :)

8) Check all your cron jobs (like backup and log rotation); reimplement on
new machine.

If you're not using the Unified Installer, make sure you use virtualenv to
set up your Python on the target. Do not fiddle the site packages of your
system Python; do not rely on its site packages staying stable.

Extra credit: do steps 1-5 and 8 via Ansible (or other remote config
mechanism) so that you don't have to ever configure via the remote command
line again. Many smileys!

On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 8:31 AM, Wolfgang Jeltsch <
wls580ii-u9ERN231N2QZkvjqreKGLti2O/[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have installed a new OS version on my server, upgrading from Debian 6
> to Debian 7. Before the upgrade, I made a backup of my entire Plone 4.1
> installation, including the Python that comes with it. After the OS
> upgrade, I copied the Plone installation to the newly installed Debian.
>
> Since I assumed that the Plone installation is basically self-contained
> (modulo a few external utilities like zlib), I thought that this
> approach should work. However, when trying to run the Plone
> installation, I got the error, “ImportError: No module named _md5”. What
> is the cause of this, and how can I fix this problem?
>
> All the best,
> Wolfgang
>
>
>
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