By mattrindia
Hi - I have a large scale multisite networj with around 50 to 60 user sites with Payment information set up in Azure. With the digital Ocean API, I considering moving all of that to Digital Ocean… Is there a way I can migrate the entire server image from Azure to Digital Ocean seamlessly without much hassle? Will it be a problem to mgrate large wordpress multisite.
I want tthe server image as that will ensure everything works fine. However, I am ok even if only the application with database can move and not the entire server image.
Kindly let me know.
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This question was answered by @jtittle:
As of right now, there’s no way to migrate outside disk images inward. My guess as to the reason is due to the differences in setup & configuration between DigitalOcean and Azure.
Migrating WordPress MU, or WordPress in general, is not hard at all though, so if you’re truly set on making the move, I would spin up X droplets, configure them as needed, do proper testing with a blank/new WordPress installation that uses a similar setup as yours does and then when you’re sure all is well, perform a migration of files & data.
1). Use GZIP to compress & archive Files, Folders, ect 2). Use MySQL Dump via CLI to backup your Database(s) 3), Use SCP to transfer between servers
If we’re talking between 1-10GB’s of Data, this will be quick. More than that and I’d recommend that you break things up a bit so you’re not trying to download one huge file. You can archive images in one, files in another, configuration in another etc.
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