Moving or backup an installation

To move Group-Office to another server you need to backup all data files and the database.

Note: All the directories here are examples. They are probably different in your case.

Determine where the data files are stored:

$ cat config.php | grep file_storage_path
$config['file_storage_path']='/home/groupoffice/';

Now create archives of these paths (It might be that the local path is inside the Group-Office scripts directory. In that case you can skip the creation of the local archive):

$ tar czf groupoffice-files.tar.gz /home/groupoffice

This command outputs the database parameters:

$ cat config.php | grep db

$config['db_type']='mysql';
$config['db_host']='localhost';
$config['db_name']='groupoffice';
$config['db_user']='groupoffice';
$config['db_pass']='password';

Now create a dump of the database:

$ mysqldump --default-character-set=utf8 groupoffice -u groupoffice -p > groupoffice-20070813.sql

You might want to compress this file to save bandwidth:

$ tar czf groupoffice-database.tar.gz groupoffice-20070813.sql

Now we've packed up all necessary files in archives:

1. groupoffice-files.tar.gz
2. groupoffice-database.tar.gz

Installing the backup on the new server

First install the Debian packages or follow the manual installation for Group-Office.

Then replace the Group-Office files and database with your backups. It's probably useful to install PhpMyAdmin so you can empty the default "groupoffice-com" database on Debian easily.

Now you need to run http://some_url_to_groupoffice.com/install/ and follow instructions to complete the install.

Good luck!