Because out Windows server is getting old, we want to migrate SCW to a new windows server. We are talking a SCW 4.5P2 that was initially installed as an older vesion, 4.0 maybe... This became apparent that when we tried to first use mysqldump and tried to do "mysql -u root -p < dump" it didn't work, we needed --allow-binary and -o, so make it run.. but some some reason nothing was restored even though it ran for several hours without errors... we think this is because the mysql database files are installed in a different directory from whan is is when you start your server by installing version 4.5P2... also the root password we had for our souce database seems to be too complex to set on the destination with the "Set-SmRepositoryPassword" is has "-" and "!" in the passwod, which for some reason doesn't work, so we are unable to get mysql/iis/snapcenter to work because of these different passwords... so we had to roll-back after many hours of stress... is it just me, or are SCW just a total dumpsterfire? 🙂 and before you tell us to just upgrade... I can tell you that we cannot because the SC Agents on 4.6 require some .NET thing that requires a reboot of the servers and the customer isn't happy to fiddle with .NET because it tends to break other things... so we are stuck on 4.5P2 for the moment...
#How to move SCW 4.5P2 between servers?
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