Move an instance to another server

Q&A
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Hi,

I have an existing production bonita instance which has been running for 2 years, with thousands of opened cases. This instance is installed on a server hosting other production applications and I’d like to move it to another server to reduce the load of the machine.

What’s the correct procedure to move the instance without losing the running processes ?

Regards

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Hi Quentin,

What version of Bonita are you running?

Prior to 7.3, Bonita engine had a dependency on the filesystem, a folder called bonita_home stored runtime information. Since 7.3, Bonita engine relies only on the DB.

So if you are running a version prior of 7.3, you will have to shutdown the server, and copy over the DB and the folder bonita_home. It should work assuming that you no customization, but this is not bullet proof. I would highly recommend to back up everything you have before trying it.

Cheers

3

Hi,

I have exactly the same question but for a Bonita Subscription 7.5.4.
Can you please help me and tell me how to proceed or where I could find the information?

thanks in advance.

Regards.

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Hi Lionel, thank you for your answer ! We’re using Bonita Community 7.1.4

I don’t know exactly what you mean by “customization”. I have an API extension, custom API access rights and custom widgets. Will it have an impact ?

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It should be alright.