Archive: migration

If you need to transfer a large amount of data from one server to another you might normally create a large tar archive, send it across and then untar it on the other end. However a slightly slicker and easier repeated way of doing this is to pipe tar directly from one server to the [...]

If you are handling a server migration and would like to have a scripted way to copy the crontab from one machine to the other then you might like this little snippet. PLAIN TEXT CODE: ssh -p2020 root@123.123.123.123 'crontab -l' | crontab - This will get the contents of the root crontab from one server [...]

So, you've just moved a magento setup from one host to another, and you want to check if the email setup is correct, how do you do it? The simple easy way to do this is to have a test front-end user (which you probably already have) and send a password change email to the [...]

Grass Seed Store – Migration from OSCommerce with Custom Functionality The Grass Seeds Store wants to migrate away from OSCommerce to Magento in order to improve stock management. They also need to maintain DEFRA compliance and have custom reports generated to do so. The custom reporting was based on the sales of seeds. The Grass [...]

Over Board – Migration to Magento from OSCommerce Over Board wished to move away from OSCommerce due to limitations encountered while using OSCommerce. Using Magento allows the company the flexibility they desired. This project involved implementing a new site design as well as importing data from the old OSCommerce site. Over Board Over Board are [...]

Migrate your osCommerce, CRE Loaded or Zen Cart store to Magento for as little as £1280. Get in touch today and we can discuss your particular requirements and help you at every step of the way in your migration to Magento, without a doubt the best open source ecommerce platform available today. If you are [...]

We recently decided to give Google Apps a try, mainly due to the requirement for some decent webmail and it being a brilliant webmail system at the unbeatable price of free. Here is my quick guide to migrating easily: Migrating emails - sign up to the free trial of the premier edition and use the [...]

If you need to move your osCommerce (and derivatives such as CRE Loaded and Zen Cart) based site to a new server, here is a quick explanation of our approach which enables you to handle the migration without any downtime and no loss of order or customer information despite the fact that in the propagation [...]

This is a nice little script I just knocked together that helps to synchronise databases when the table structures might not be exactly the same (for example different versions of the same system). You would need to edit the top section to put the correct DB credentials etc. This is definitely not to be used [...]