For the system admin

Moving Linx to a new server

Moving Linx is a backup on the old server and a restore during the install on the new one.

Steps

  1. On the old server: System → Backups → Make a backup file, then Download file and Show its password. Keep the password apart from the file.
  2. Install Linx on the new server (Installing Linx), with the same domain if you can.
  3. In the setup wizard, choose Restore from a backup and give it the file and its password. See Restoring from a backup.
  4. Point your DNS at the new server, if Linx doesn’t do it for you.
  5. Turn the old server off. Both would claim the same names.

Moved to a new place?

After a restore, Admin home shows Moved to a new place? when the backup came from somewhere else. It lists what may still point at the old place:

  • phone lines tied to the old network or address (a phone system on the old network, a phone company that knows the old address, private connections);
  • desk phones set up on the old network;
  • “admins only from my home network”, if it lists the old network;
  • a different domain: passkeys stop working, so sign in with your password and authenticator app and add new ones; desk phones need the new address;
  • backup places on other computers or storage, which you add again on the new server.