Helix Core Server Administrator Guide: Fundamentals (2019.1)

Moving a Helix Core server to a new machine

How you move an existing Helix Core server from one machine to another depends on the following factors:

  • whether the machines use the same byte order
  • whether the machines use different byte ordering, but the same text file (CR/LF) format
  • whether the machines use different byte order and a different text file format.

Additional considerations apply if the new machine has a different IP address/hostname.

The Helix Core server stores two types of data under the Helix server root directory: versioned files and a database containing metadata describing those files. Your versioned files are the ones created and maintained by your users, and your database is a set of Helix server-maintained binary files holding the history and present state of the versioned files. In order to move a Helix Core server to a new machine, both the versioned files and the database must be successfully migrated from the old machine to the new machine.

For more information about the distinction between versioned files and database, as well as for an overview of backup and restore procedures in general, see Backup and recovery.

Also see the Support Knowledgebase article, "Moving a Helix Server".