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I know if anyone would know, it is the fine people here are the pirate bay.
I've decided to keep my second tracker for myself, and therefore to keep the safety of the website, and not least my members, as tight as I can get it.
I've spoken to my current host, whom have promised me that should anything go wrong, they would give me a few days to move.
I have never 'moved' a website before, let alone a tracker, and therefore I wonder, how do you best prepare a tracker + the site itself and move it in a few days without causing too much trouble?
I am asking in advance as I'd like to try and make any preparations that I can. Even if they are unneeded, I still want to be on the safe side.
Thank you
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Does your hosting plan include some panel with options ? If it does, search for an automated back-up feature for the ftp and db.
If it lacks that, you would need some script to do it for you, unfortunately i cant give you a good advice on those.
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I've just moved a site from one server to another, was using Ubuntu so it was a simple backup then restore then change the dns address over and that was that, took all of 10 minutes.
Took a bit longer to import the WordPress database though.
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(Aug 22, 2016, 09:47 am)Kingfish Wrote: I've just moved a site from one server to another, was using Ubuntu so it was a simple backup then restore then change the dns address over and that was that, took all of 10 minutes.
Took a bit longer to import the WordPress database though.
Any advice on how to make the torrents listen to a new domain url if needed be?
Also, if I back up the tracker would uploading it automatically install it on the new server, or do I just upload the files, install and run it? (XBT)
(Aug 22, 2016, 08:23 am)Itanium2 Wrote: Does your hosting plan include some panel with options ? If it does, search for an automated back-up feature for the ftp and db.
If it lacks that, you would need some script to do it for you, unfortunately i cant give you a good advice on those.
Yes it is VPS so it has everything I need.
Not sure what is the best option though, Local backup or FTP server?
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hireshi Wrote:Any advice on how to make the torrents listen to a new domain url if needed be?
Also, if I back up the tracker would uploading it automatically install it on the new server, or do I just upload the files, install and run it? (XBT)
No, as you will have a back-up of your database already and import that into your new(back-up) DataBase system.
hireshi Wrote:Yes it is VPS so it has everything I need.
Not sure what is the best option though, Local backup or FTP server?
Local is not an option if they remove your rights to that account.
But i didnt understand, does the option include backing up the FTP + DataBase ? Both are equally important.
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If your tracker is for example udp://tracker.opentrackr.org:1337 then you just need to make dns changes but if your tracker is udp://62.138.0.158:6969/announce then you are starting from scratch as you've lost the ip address with the server move and in that case there would be little point in doing a restore of the backup as it would never work anyway.
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Meaning if you dont have a domain name, things are screwed.
Btw Kingfish, aint this repairable through changing the announce address on the tracker side and everyone just re-downloads the new .torrent files with updated announce address ?
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(Aug 22, 2016, 11:01 am)Kingfish Wrote: If your tracker is for example udp://tracker.opentrackr.org:1337 then you just need to make dns changes but if your tracker is udp://62.138.0.158:6969/announce then you are starting from scratch as you've lost the ip address with the server move and in that case there would be little point in doing a restore of the backup as it would never work anyway.
My tracker is set to domain:2710/ announce
If that is what you meant, it also listens to the IP though. But its not set to it, not sure how I can undo this before more torrents are added?
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in my experience, i've never been able to move domains without starting again, even on the same domain and with backups we had to start over.
I'm assuming the tracker is private, if you have "members" it normally means you have a small private community.
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If your torrents have the private flag set, and you lose the domain, then the existing swarm is dead. i.e. - don't set the private flag.
As for the rest, have good backups and a move takes as long as it takes for you to upload the required files.
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