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 is some restriction:

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

That is, if you are using Community Server 1.6, and want to switch to the Professional Server 1.7, you must first upgrade to Community Server 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

We need poppler-utils 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

Install Libreoffice/UNO

Libreoffice program and Python-uno library is needed to enable office files online preview. If you don't install them, the office documents online preview will be disabled.

On Ubuntu/Debian:

sudo apt-get install libreoffice python-uno

On Centos/RHEL:

sudo yum install libreoffice libreoffice-headless libreoffice-pyuno

For other Linux distro: Installation of LibreOffice on Linux

Also, you may need to install fonts for your language, especially for Asians, otherwise the office/pdf document may not display correctly.

For example, Chinese users may wish to install the WenQuanYi series of truetype fonts:

# For ubuntu/debian
sudo apt-get install ttf-wqy-microhei ttf-wqy-zenhei xfonts-wqy

Do the migration

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

Get the license

Put the license 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, /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 would 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