Thanks Adam! Right now I am thinking of setting up two Azure servers already: one for a complete migration of Arches ver. 3 from AWS, and the other for Arches ver. 4. I may start the migration as early as next month. I would be glad to share to this forum my experience on Azure.
Regards, Joel On Saturday, November 19, 2016 at 4:59:38 AM UTC+8, Adam Cox wrote: > > 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.
