Hello,

We have an existing galaxy instance that uses MySQL, has workflows and data libraries and countless changes to the source code and tools. We would like to save the database, workflows and data libraries but bring all the sourcecode up to date with the standard galaxy code. Because over 3000 of our files have been changed, we do not believe that we can realistically run hg update and then hg merge.

We have built a test instance of galaxy that runs on a different virtual machine. One thought is to clone it, migrate all the datasets to it and then use the clone as the new production instance.

One specific piece of information would be very helpful. Can we just copy the ~/data files to the test instance and have galaxy recognize them or is there metadata stored in the database?

-Rob

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Hans-Rudolf Hotz <hrh@fmi.ch> wrote:
Hi Rob

I don't know what exactly you mean by "new server". Assuming you are just talking about different hardware:

Have you considered moving 'everything' to the new server? ie copying the Galaxy directory tree (especially make sure you copy ~/database/ ) and connect to the same PostgreSQL (or MySQL) database.

If you want, I can give you more details how we successfully changed the hardware of our server last year


Regards, Hans




On 03/28/2012 03:31 PM, Robert Chase wrote:
Thank you that could be very helpful to our users if we can't download
them all as one big batch. I was hoping to be able to do something to
save the users the headache of having to export and upload their
workflows to the new server.

Regards,
-Rob

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 4:07 AM, Hans-Rudolf Hotz <hrh@fmi.ch
<mailto:hrh@fmi.ch>> wrote:

   Hi Robert

   Have you looked at the "Download or Export" option? - you get this
   option, when you click on the triangle next to the names of you
   workflows.


   Regards, Hans


   On 03/27/2012 08:36 PM, Robert Chase wrote:

       Hello,

       We are going to migrate to a new instance of the galaxy server. Our
       current instance contains a number of workflows and other data
       that we
       would like to have available on the new server. Is there a way
       to backup
       the workflows and then reload them on the new server?

       Regards,
       -Robert Paul Chase
       Channing Lab


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