Migration of zabbix from one server to another new server

[ankushssgb]

Hi all,

I have currently zabbix-2.2.6-1 is installed on CentOS release 6.9 and mysql version is Server version: 5.5.33-cll-lve MySQL Community Server (GPL) by Atomicorp

So, I want to migrate this zabbix to another server with OS installed on new server is CentOS 7 and zabbix I installed with version zabbix-2.2.21-1 and MySQL installed on
new server is Server version: 5.6.40 MySQL Community Server (GPL).

So, can any one help me with the detailed procedure how to migrate zabbix from my current server to new centos 7 server. all details are mentioned above.

[g3ph4z]

Hi,

first of all, sorry for my bad english.

This will help you so much:

https://gist.github.com/mwalczak/9807459

https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/2.2/manual/installation/upgrade

and this is as I would do:

1. Stop the old and new zabbix-server backend
2. create mysql backup in old server with sqldump (or you can copy the files in fs level and run mysql_upgrade, but I dont recommend this)
3. import the backup into the new database
4. run mysql_check for sure
5. install the new frontend
6. start the zabbix backend
7. follow the instructions on frontend

[CarolinaAn]

can we retrieve the template from the old server?

[anonamoose]

Yes, you can export templates from the old and import to the new. I'm not sure there's a way to do it automagically. I've gotten into the habit of prepending all my templates with an organization name. Then it's easy to search for them and export.