[BlueOnyx:23105] Re: Easy Migrate

[Colin Jack]

Thanks Michael,

> Hi Colin,
> 
> > Quick question. If we do an initial  migration from a live server in
> > order to check that everything comes across okay - do we then just do
> > it again when we are ready to go live to update databases etc. with
> > current the data before taking the old VPS offline?
> 
> Correct. When you run Easy-Migrate the second time it will sync the already
> migrated data again. This should be a bit faster, as it only transfers the
> changes.
> 
> There is one potential catch: The MySQL databases. Easy-Migrate will dump
> them again and do a reimport of them on the target server. This usually works,
> but I have seen isolated cases where this buggered out.
> Not for all databases, but for some. Should that happen to you, use
> phpMyAdmin to drop the database(s) in question on the target server and run
> Easy-Migrate again.
> 

That sounds okay - I can always dump and import again if need be.

Your instructions for Easy Migrate start at ssh-copy-id but that fails with unknown folder.
I went onto the source server and ran ssh-keygen again which copied to /root/.ssh/id_rsa.pub and then tried ssh-copy-id -i /root/.ssh/id_rsa.pub and failed again. Bit of a noob question really but what am I doing wrong? I could do it the old fashioned way and copy it across but wanted to know what I was doing wrong!

Thanks
Colin