How to migrate SonarQube to new host

Question

Need to migrate my SonarQube to a new server (not the remote DB, just the application). Is there any special tool offered by Sonar to do so? is it just a matter of pointing this new installation (if possible) to the old DB?

Sonar v5.2 MySQL 5.x

Thanks!

Answer 1

I do this regularly as the servers I run on are only provisioned for 30 days. You don't specify the operating system, but for windows it's as simple as:

1. Stop "old" service
2. Copy folder from old machine to new machine
3. Install the windows service with the java wrapper
4. Start the service
5. In my case I change the DNS alias after the service is running