Hi Joel, I don't have any experience with Azure, but I have some thoughts on a few of your questions:
1) Technically, I don't see any problem with moving from one database to another. Here's a place you could start: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1237725/copying-postgresql-database-to-another-server 2) The way you have set up media store on S3 will not be the same for Azure, so you will have to change that. I'm not sure if Azure has some comparable service. You could transfer your entire S3 contents to a directory on your new Azure server, and then change your media-related settings.py contents to reference that directory. That should work, because arches is storing the file names for your media, and settings.py tells the app where to find those files. This will be a little tricky, I expect. I would test it out with a single image to figure out the correct procedure. 4) Yes, I think it would be more prudent to wait. You will need to spend time installing and configuring Arches 4, so you may as well do that directly on your new Azure set up and migrate at that time. As far as I know, there will be a well-defined workflow for migrating Arches 3 HIP data to Arches 4. Good luck! Also interested to hear any feedback about Azure. Adam On Wednesday, November 16, 2016 at 3:46:59 AM UTC-6, Joel Aldor wrote: > > Hello! > > So we got an Azure cloud donation from Microsoft and we are planning to > migrate our existing Arches installation from AWS to Azure, which should > happen in the next two months (in time for Arches ver. 4). Our current > setup is an EC2 instance of Ubuntu with Apache Web Server and an S3 storage > bucket for our images and files for information resources. However since I > can't download an image from AWS I will have to deploy a new Arches > implementation from scratch. > > My considerations are the following: > > 1.) Can we export the DB and import it on a clean-slate installation? > 2.) How about the images from our S3 storage? If we use an Azure storage > service, how will the setup be different? > 3.) We want to dockerize Arches or use an Azure container service so it'll > be easier for us to deploy several Arches implementations to local > government units and institutions. > 4.) Would it be more prudent for us to wait for Arches ver. 4? Will there > be a data migration wizard from ver. 3 to ver. 4? > > If there are people here who have experience deploying Arches on Azure, I > would love to hear from them. Thank you very much! > > Regards, > > Joel > Philippine Heritage Map > -- -- To post, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]. For more information, visit https://groups.google.com/d/forum/archesproject?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Arches Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
