Migrating Jboss from server A to Server B

[ppantazis]

Community, I was wondering how easy it would be to migrate an instance of JBoss that is running on a VM currently to another VM or Server. Currently the Server that Jboss is running on has the instance installed at:

/opt/jboss-4.0.5.GA

It appears to me that if I tared the directory jboss-4.0.5.GA and moved it to the new server then decompress at /opt I should be able to fire up the app Server without any problems.

anything I should be aware of?

[peterj]

You do not even have to be that careful. I have succesfully zipped up an app server installed at c:\apps\jboss-4.2.1.GA, unzipped it on my Linux box at \opt\jboss-4.2.1.GA, and it ran just fine (though I did have to chmod the *.sh scripts, also I removed the server/xxx/[data|log|tmp|work] directories)

From what I can tell, there is nothing in the basic configuration that stores an absolute path.

[ppantazis]

Thanks Peter, unless I don't get a response screaming "bloody Murder" I believe I am going to go ahead and proceed. If anybody has something to add please do so please.

Thanks,

[vashistvishal]

Same as Peter just tar it up yr distribution and untar on the target machine