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Expand Up @@ -37,6 +37,20 @@ the new location. It is also assumed that the authentication method
your original machine was installed recently just copying that base
configuration is a safe best practice.

.. important:: Before beginning the migration, **check the ``config/config.php`` file
on your ORIGINAL system** to identify any optional services that are configured,
such as:

* Redis or Memcached (for caching/sessions)
* External object storage (S3, etc.)
* LDAP
* Mail server settings
* Full-text search backends (Elasticsearch, etc.)

**You must also install and configure these same services on the NEW machine
before copying the Nextcloud files.** Failure to do so may cause errors such
as "Redis server went away" or connection failures during Nextcloud startup.


#. On the original machine then stop Nextcloud. First activate the
maintenance mode. After waiting for 6-7 minutes for all sync clients to
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