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Index: src/docs/user/configuration/configuration_guide.diviner
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--- src/docs/user/configuration/configuration_guide.diviner
+++ src/docs/user/configuration/configuration_guide.diviner
@@ -204,5 +204,6 @@
- configuring inbound mail with @{article:Configuring Inbound Email}; or
- importing repositories with @{article:Diffusion User Guide}; or
- learning about daemons with @{article:Managing Daemons with phd}; or
- - configuring backups with @{article:Configuring Backups}; or
+ - configuring backups with
+ @{article:Configuring Backups and Performing Migrations}; or
- contributing to Phabricator with @{article:Contributor Introduction}.
Index: src/docs/user/configuration/configuring_backups.diviner
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--- src/docs/user/configuration/configuring_backups.diviner
+++ src/docs/user/configuration/configuring_backups.diviner
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-@title Configuring Backups
+@title Configuring Backups and Performing Migrations
@group config
-Advice for backing up Phabricator.
+Advice for backing up Phabricator, or migrating from one machine to another.
= Overview =
@@ -16,12 +16,17 @@
This document discusses approaches for backing up this data.
+If you are migrating from one machine to another, you can generally follow the
+same steps you would if you were creating a backup and then restoring it, you
+will just backup the old machine and then restore the data onto the new
+machine.
+
= Backup: MySQL Databases =
Most of Phabricator's data is stored in MySQL, and it's the most important thing
to back up. You can run `bin/storage dump` to get a dump of all the MySQL
-databases. This is a convenience script which just runs a normal `mysqldump`
-of every database Phabricator owns.
+databases. This is a convenience script which just runs a normal `mysqldump`,
+but will only dump databases Phabricator owns.
Since most of this data is compressible, it may be helpful to run it through
gzip prior to storage. For example:

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