Migrating instances to a new machine

[ThePotatoKing]

Guide to migrate individual instances by hand:
https://discourse.cubecoders.com/t/moving-instances-from-one-amp-server-to-another-with-existing-instances/18341

The following are a general list of steps that would be a tad safer migrating all your instances across systems, and doesn’t require the repair step.

Note, to log into the amp user you can run (su -l amp or sudo su -l amp [lowercase L, not a 1])

On the old system:

• (if possible) Update AMP and ampinstmgr: https://discourse.cubecoders.com/t/how-to-update-amp-to-the-latest-version/2297
• ampinstmgr stopall as amp

On the new system do the following:

• install AMP
• as amp, run ampinstmgr stopall
• stop the ampinstmgr service (service ampinstmgr stop on debian)
• nuke/remove .ampdata (or just rename it to be safe, you never know)
• restore your own .ampdata folder on the new machine
• as root, run ampinstmgr fixperms
• start the ampinstmgr service (service ampinstmgr start on debian)
• as amp, run ampinstmgr reactivateall
• reboot if things look funny