Porting over to a new box

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The Bandit
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Porting over to a new box

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What is the best way to move a wg 3.x system to a new box without having to set-up everything again and without losing messages in the forums, email, etc?

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The Bandit wrote:What is the best way to move a wg 3.x system to a new box without having to set-up everything again and without losing messages in the forums, email, etc?

Thanks!
Reinstall the WG base system to the Windows box so it will function as a service properly, then copy your existing WG over the new install. As long as you haven't made any drastic changes (like a local C: drive to a network drive or Win98 to Vista :)) it will work.

I just recently had to to that when I lost a HD on my server, I keep a backup of my WGSERV directory, so after I installed WG on the new HD, I just copied the backup over the old one. Worked fine. The only messages I lost were those after my backup. If you copy yours off just prior to the move you should be ok.

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The Bandit wrote:What is the best way to move a wg 3.x system to a new box without having to set-up everything again and without losing messages in the forums, email, etc?

Thanks!
install on the new box, move a zipped up folder over there go online.
this works if the new install is the same ver 3.30->3.30 etc.....

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