[Arches] Re: Migrating Arches implementation from AWS to Azure

[Joel Aldor]

Thanks Adam! Right now I am thinking of setting up two Azure servers 
already: one for a complete migration of Arches ver. 3 from AWS, and the 
other for Arches ver. 4. I may start the migration as early as next month. 
I would be glad to share to this forum my experience on Azure.

Regards,

Joel

On Saturday, November 19, 2016 at 4:59:38 AM UTC+8, Adam Cox wrote:
>
> Hi Joel, I don't have any experience with Azure, but I have some thoughts 
> on a few of your questions:
>
> 1) Technically, I don't see any problem with moving from one database to 
> another. Here's a place you could start: 
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1237725/copying-postgresql-database-to-another-server
> 2) The way you have set up media store on S3 will not be the same for 
> Azure, so you will have to change that. I'm not sure if Azure has some 
> comparable service. You could transfer your entire S3 contents to a 
> directory on your new Azure server, and then change your media-related 
> settings.py contents to reference that directory. That should work, because 
> arches is storing the file names for your media, and settings.py tells the 
> app where to find those files. This will be a little tricky, I expect. I 
> would test it out with a single image to figure out the correct procedure.
> 4) Yes, I think it would be more prudent to wait. You will need to spend 
> time installing and configuring Arches 4, so you may as well do that 
> directly on your new Azure set up and migrate at that time. As far as I 
> know, there will be a well-defined workflow for migrating Arches 3 HIP data 
> to Arches 4.
>
> Good luck! Also interested to hear any feedback about Azure.
>
> Adam
>
>
> On Wednesday, November 16, 2016 at 3:46:59 AM UTC-6, Joel Aldor wrote:
>>
>> Hello!
>>
>> So we got an Azure cloud donation from Microsoft and we are planning to 
>> migrate our existing Arches installation from AWS to Azure, which should 
>> happen in the next two months (in time for Arches ver. 4). Our current 
>> setup is an EC2 instance of Ubuntu with Apache Web Server and an S3 storage 
>> bucket for our images and files for information resources. However since I 
>> can't download an image from AWS I will have to deploy a new Arches 
>> implementation from scratch.
>>
>> My considerations are the following:
>>
>> 1.) Can we export the DB and import it on a clean-slate installation? 
>> 2.) How about the images from our S3 storage? If we use an Azure storage 
>> service, how will the setup be different?
>> 3.) We want to dockerize Arches or use an Azure container service so 
>> it'll be easier for us to deploy several Arches implementations to local 
>> government units and institutions.
>> 4.) Would it be more prudent for us to wait for Arches ver. 4?  Will 
>> there be a data migration wizard from ver. 3 to ver. 4?
>>
>> If there are people here who have experience deploying Arches on Azure, I 
>> would love to hear from them. Thank you very much!
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Joel
>> Philippine Heritage Map
>>
>

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RE: [Arches] How to integrate Built Heritage, Immoveable Collections, and Moveable Collections

[Van Daele, Koen]

Hello Allison,

I would certainly recommend looking further into Collective Access (CA) 
(http://www.collectiveaccess.org/) It’s a project that has been around for 
years, but still seems to be going strong. I’ve met some of the people behind 
the project. Very open and friendly and knowledgeable. What was nice was that 
they also had archivists and historians on staff, so they could approach a 
project from the technical and the business side. The software itself is very 
flexible and can be customised heavily. Which is an advantage and a 
disadvantage at the same time. Depending on who you are, what your technical 
skills are and how much you're willing to invest.

I believe Omeka (http://omeka.org/) is somewhat similar in some aspects, 
although it is supposed to be less flexible and less customisable. But much 
simpeler to get up and running. Finally there's also Collection Space 
(http://www.collectionspace.org/). I assume 
that one is a bit closer to Collective Access, but maybe that's just because of 
the names. I do think Collective Access is the most flexible of them all and 
based on my limited experience it has the bigger user base.
Cheers,
Koen

Van: archesproject@googlegroups.com [mailto:archesproject@googlegroups.com] 
Namens Allison Lee
Verzonden: maandag 14 november 2016 16:34
Aan: Arches Project 
Onderwerp: Re: [Arches] How to integrate Built Heritage, Immoveable 
Collections, and Moveable Collections

Hello David,

Thank you for the detailed response about bringing these documentation 
objectives together into one place.  We have reviewed a bit of Collective 
Access, and it does seem to be a good option for storing our collection data 
and linking it to the main Arches site.  At the moment, developing new modules 
may be too demanding for our limited resources but we will revisit this when v4 
is released.

If anyone has other suggestions for moveable collections, or any advice 
regarding Collective Access, please do let us know.  We don't have experience 
with Collective Access, but it does appear very capable for extensive component 
collections such as ours.

Best,
Allison
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