Month: March 2014

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How to migrate a linux partition to another server over ssh

Category : KVM , Linux

In order to migrate a partition/lvm to another server you can run the following command:

dd if=/dev/vg/source bs=512M |gzip |ssh root@target "gzip -d | dd of=/dev/vg/dest bs=512M"

How to move a wordpress installation easily

Category : Linux

In order to move a WordPress installation, move all web files to the new location and run the following queries in the database:

UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = replace(option_value, 'http://www.old-domain.com', 'http://www.new-domain.com') WHERE option_name = 'home' OR option_name = 'siteurl';

UPDATE wp_posts SET guid = replace(guid, 'http://www.old-domain.com', 'http://www.new-domain.com');

UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = replace(post_content, 'http://www.old-domain.com', 'http://www.new-domain.com');