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Revision 1 (Gareth Eaton, 10/16/2023 12:46 AM) → Revision 2/8 (Gareth Eaton, 10/16/2023 12:47 AM)

h1. Moving Nextcloud to a New Server 

 1. Backup old nextcloud data folder I use filebrowser for https://filebrowser.org 

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 curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/filebrowser/get/master/get.sh | bash 
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 The login  
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 filebrowser -a 192.168.*.* -p 8080 
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 Login to it using your web browser http://192.168.*.*:8080 NOTE: change the 192.168.*.* with you IP address. 

 Download the Nextcloud/Data folder 

 2. In the CLI back up your mysql database, mysql -u your_mysql_username -p your_database_name < your_backup_file.sql 
  in my case 
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 mysql -u nextcloud -p nextcloud < nextcloud-sqlbkp.bak 
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 3. install a new copy of ubuntu 20.04 on your new server, update and follow the in stall instinstrushion for a new copy of nextcloud, when you get to add user call it nextcloud-admin 

 put the install in to sudo -u www-data php occ maintenance:mode --on 

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 sudo -u www-data php occ maintenance:mode --on 
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 4. now using fileziller upload the database and data folder to the new server 
 5. use rsyne to mv the data to the nexcloud/data folder 
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 sudo rsync -avP source_directory/ /var/www/html/nextcloud/data/ 
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 6. restore the data base, mysql -u your_mysql_username -p your_database_name < your_backup_file.sql 

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 mysql -u nextcloud -p nextcloud < nextcloud-sqlbkp.bak 
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 7. now you should be able to accsess, check your userers and file are good. 

 8. delete the data file and data base you uploaded accsess