migrate data to new server

[smithmarcw]

Hello -

Can someone help me migrate Spoolman data to a new server? What are the files/directories to copy over? Apologies if this has been discussed, didn't find anything.

[smithmarcw]

I was able to find and migrate the data. Here is how I did it and hope it helps someone else.

The following is done on the NEW server command line, of course make sure the existing server is up to migrate the DB. This assumes you used default installation directories... Good luck

1. Install Spoolman as normal on the new server
2. Shutdown the server
   sudo systemctl stop Spoolman
3. back up the database directory on the new server (just in case, good practice)
   cp -R ~/.local/share/spoolman/ ~/.local/share/spoolman_backup/
4. migrate data from old server to new server (I used scp)
   scp -r [user]@[old-server-ip]:~/.local/share/spoolman/ ~/.local/share/
5. Restart the service
   sudo systemctl start Spoolman