Backup Zabbix

[kanghong18]

dear All

Kindy guide on how to migrate zabbix to another server ?

what i known is
1. backup the zabbix DB and restore in new server ?
2. all file in etc/zabbix/*.*

any others??


thanks in advance

rgds
kanghong

[dantheman]

Another thing you don't want to forget, is if your zabbix server is changing IP addresses you will want to make sure that all your agents have the new server's IP address in it's Allowed list in the client config file. Otherwise they won't talk to the new server.

You will need to make sure that your config files point to the correct database, and also that the front end is updated to point ot the correct database also. Otherwise I can't think of much else that needs to be moved over or modified.. after obviously installing zabbix on the new server.

[James Wells]

Greetings,

Another thing you don't want to forget, is if your zabbix server is changing IP addresses you will want to make sure that all your agents have the new server's IP address in it's Allowed list in the client config file. Otherwise they won't talk to the new server.

This is actually the reason I strongly recommend people use the fully qualified domain name instead of IP address. By using the FQDN, you are able to move the server to your hearts content, just simply updating DNS and restarting the agent is all that is needed at that point.