Re: Moving rings between servers [was: Problems...]
Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
You FTP'd the files in the first place, right? Try to FTP them again, using ASCII transfer mode. pam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: I DON'T BELIEVE IT!!!! That fixed it!!!!
The easiest way to move Ringlink ring(s) between two servers is to create a backup file of the data directory at the old location and restore that file on the new server. See http://arc.ringlink.org/ringlink-open/msg02313.html If a Windows server is involved in one or both ends, the backup file needs to be a .zip file and, accordingly, the zlib compression library needs to be available on both the old and the new server. That was not the case here, so you transferred the data directory with a FTP client instead. When doing so, it's important that the data files are uploaded in ASCII transfer mode. Depending on the server configuration, FTPing data files can sometimes (though not in this case) cause file ownership problems. If that's the case, the easiest way to fix it is to create a backup file (on the new server), empty the data directory by moving or removing the data files and directories, and restore the backup file from the empty data directory. / Gunnar
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