ArchivesSpace is a server whose main purpose is to host a software program also named… ArchivesSpace. The program is “an open source archives information management application for managing and providing web access to archives, manuscripts and digital objects”. The server also hosts a few auxiliary programs who take the output from ArchivesSpace and convert it into various other formats, which are then made available via an Apache webserver on the same machine.
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The current production version of Aspace is 2.7.1 .
Terminal access: ssh -i /path/to/production/pem_file.pem ubuntu@50.16.132.240
The ubuntu user owns all the admin scripts.
The relevant Ansible role is: /roles/archivesspace/ in the ansible-inventory codebase.
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copy your backup database to an arbitrary location on the new server
ssh in to the new server
Log into the empty
archivesspacedatabase:mysql archivesspace --password='the_archivessace_database_password' --user=the_user
Once at the mysql command prompt, load the database:
mysql>
\. /path/to/your/aspace-backup.sql
Documentation
https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/wiki/home contains comprehensive documentation.
If you have a sciencehistory.orgaddress, you can get access to it by filling out a form.