Migration of Gerrit Server Old to New

In this tutorial, we will be migrating our gerrit 2.13 to a new server running gerrit 2.15

Prerequisites

To complete this tutorial, you'll need the following 2 nodes

• Database node

• New gerrit node

Environment

Old gerrit

Test

STEP 1 On old gerrit node

Backup gerrit database

Login to your old gerrit node and backup your gerrit data base. In this case the database name is reviewdb. I use mysqldump to backup the database to a file.

STEP 2 On new gerrit node

Configuation

OS	Mysql	Gerrit version	Authetication
Ubuntu 14.0.4	on localhost	2.13