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Can I back up from the NT version and restore to Linux?


Iron Eagle

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I have OsCommerce running on a Win NT server and I want to create a new store on a Linux server. Can I restore the Mysql back up into the Linux servers admin?

 

Also when I try to do a back up I get a CGI error

 

"CGI Timeout

The specified CGI application exceeded the allowed time for processing. The server has deleted the process"

 

Any suggestions?

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I dont see why you can't just move over to a linux server.

 

If the CGI is timing out on you, perhaps you could log in to phpMyAdmin, or directly in to MySQL itself and do a raw db dump?

 

The database is probably large and the hosting server isn't allowing such a long script to run. You could probably increase the time-out interval if you have access. Might be easier to just avoid the scripts and dump the db manually.

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Yes! You can change between Windows and Linux without a problem.

I setup my sites in a Windows environment and then upload to a Linux server.

 

If you're getting timeouts, try doing a backup, then upload the backup to your admin/backups directory on your server and do it that way. You shouldn't get any timeouts since the server will be loading the file from itself.

 

HTH,

Tony

 

P.S.

There is a gZip contribution which you can use to make you database compress smaller before uploading it.

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