Migrate from Seafile Community Server

Restriction

It's quite likely you have deployed the Seafile Community Server and want to switch to the Professional Server, or vice versa. But there are some restrictions:

• You can only switch between Community Server and Professional Server of the same minor version.

That means, if you are using Community Server version 1.6, and want to switch to the Professional Server 1.7, you must first upgrade to Community Server version 1.7, and then follow the guides below to switch to the Professional Server 1.7. (The last tiny version number in 1.7.x is not important.)

Preparation

Install Java Runtime Environment (JRE)

Java 7 or higher is required.

On Ubuntu/Debian:

sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre

On CentOS/Red Hat:

sudo yum install java-1.7.0-openjdk

Note: Since version 3.1.12, java 1.7 is required, please check your java version by java -version. If not, please change the default java version.

Install poppler-utils

The package poppler-utils is required for full text search of pdf files.

On Ubuntu/Debian:

sudo apt-get install poppler-utils

On CentOS/Red Hat:

sudo yum install poppler-utils

Do the migration

We assume you already have deployed Seafile Community Server 1.8.0 under /data/haiwen/seafile-server-1.8.0.

Get the license

Put the license file you get under the top level directory of your Seafile installation. In our example, it is /data/haiwen/.

Download & uncompress Seafile Professional Server

You should uncompress the tarball to the top level directory of your installation, in our example it is /data/haiwen.

tar xf seafile-pro-server_1.8.0_x86-64.tar.gz

Now you have:

haiwen
├── seafile-license.txt
├── seafile-pro-server-1.8.0/
├── seafile-server-1.8.0/
├── ccnet/
├── seafile-data/
├── seahub-data/
├── seahub.db
└── seahub_settings.py

You should notice the difference between the names of the Community Server and Professional Server. Take the 1.8.0 64bit version as an example:

• Seafile Community Server tarball is seafile-server_1.8.0_x86-86.tar.gz; After uncompressing, the folder is seafile-server-1.8.0
• Seafile Professional Server tarball is seafile-pro-server_1.8.0_x86-86.tar.gz; After uncompressing, the folder is seafile-pro-server-1.8.0

Do the migration

• Stop Seafile Community Server if it's running

  cd haiwen/seafile-server-1.8.0
  ./seafile.sh stop
  ./seahub.sh stop
  

• Run the migration script

  cd haiwen/seafile-pro-server-1.8.0/
  ./pro/pro.py setup --migrate
  

The migration script is going to do the following for you:

• ensure your have all the prerequisites met
• create necessary extra configurations
• update the avatar directory
• create extra database tables

Now you have:

haiwen
├── seafile-license.txt
├── seafile-pro-server-1.8.0/
├── seafile-server-1.8.0/
├── ccnet/
├── seafile-data/
├── seahub-data/
├── seahub.db
├── seahub_settings.py
└── pro-data/

Start Seafile Professional Server

cd haiwen/seafile-pro-server-1.8.0
./seafile.sh start
./seahub.sh start

Switch Back to Community Server

• Stop Seafile Professional Server if it's running

  cd haiwen/seafile-pro-server-1.8.0/
  ./seafile.sh stop
  ./seahub.sh stop
  

• Update the avatar directory link just like in Minor Upgrade

  cd haiwen/seafile-server-1.8.0/
  ./upgrade/minor-upgrade.sh
  

• Start Seafile Community Server

  cd haiwen/seafile-server-1.8.0/
  ./seafile.sh start
  ./seahub.sh start