Minemeld - best way to backup and move config to new image

[rschunk]

I am tring to move the /opt/minemeld/local/config directory to a new image of Minemeld I have running in AWS.  I can scp the config directory out of my exisintg Minemeld using winscp but when I try to copy it into my new Mindmeld image it always aborts.

It appears to be a permission issue but not sure how to around this.  I am logged in via winscp and ssh as the ubuntu user.

Can someone help with this?

Thank you.

Rich

[lmori]

Hi @rschunk,

to backup the config you should:

1. open an ssh shell on the instance
2. run the following commands

   $ sudo service minemeld stop
   $ tar -cvzf backup.tar.gz /opt/minemeld/local/config/ /opt/minemeld/local/prototypes/

3. use scp/sftp to transfer backup.tar.gz to some safe location

to restore:

1. use scp/sftp to transfer backup.tar.gz to the instance
2. open an ssh shell on the instance
3. run the following commands

   $ sudo minemeld stop
   $ sudo -g minemeld -u minemeld tar -C / -xvzf backup.tar.gz
   $ sudo minemeld start