Moving Epicor from one server to another

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We have done this very thing, two times actually.
Once for a test server.
Once for a test E9 upgrade server.

We have all three running the same version of server 2003, with all the updates.
Installed all the epicor and progress monitor tools
Installed Vantage from scratch on each one, following the version and SP upgrade/update paths.
Then after we verified Vantage was working we performed a restore to the db from a recent backup.

Sounds much easier than it really was, but that way we had two, for the most part identical installs of Vantage. The upgrade and version/schema changes were a real pain.
We did not use SQL, so we didn't need to buy another license, at least for that.

We just had to pay attention to port numbers and we setup our clients config file to have the lines in it for the correct server we were using for client testing.
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We would like to copy Epicor onto another server for testing purposes.
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Can we literally take our Epicor folder from our live server (all exe’s etc contained in this folder) and put it on the new server?
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Im guessing we would probably need to install OpenEdge and Epicor Administration tools.
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Thanks,
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CHRIS

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Here is where virtualization really comes in handy. You can create a virtual copy of you working Epicor server (Physical to Virtual) and then run it in a test environment. If you have rights to Windows Server 2008 R2, you can do this for free. These days, even if you don't have a spare server that can run virtualization, you can build a i7 core based PC that will run hyper-v...it will be slower of course.

Tim

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No, you can't.

You can do a P2V like tim said, but I have found the easiest thing to do(for me) is just do a complete secondary installation of Epicor on your test server.

However, make sure that all drive letters and shares are 100% identical so you don't need to mess around with changing drive letters and repointing custom reports etc everytime you move the DB over to the test machine.

-----Original Message-----
From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Chris Thompson
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 6:36 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Moving Epicor from one server to another

We would like to copy Epicor onto another server for testing purposes.

Can we literally take our Epicor folder from our live server (all exe’s etc contained in this folder) and put it on the new server?

Im guessing we would probably need to install OpenEdge and Epicor Administration tools.

Thanks,


CHRIS

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