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SoftEther VPN Server migration from one server to another

Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2016 8:09 am
by COIN
Hello everyone,
i need to migrate SoftEther to another server. I have some user which are configured to autenticate with "certificate" and other with "user and password". I was wondering if there is a way to export configuration from server1 and import configuration on server2?

Any suggestion or work around would be appreciate.
Thanks in advance,

Luca.

Re: SoftEther VPN Server migration from one server to anothe

Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2016 4:07 pm
by moatazelmasry
Hmmm I don't know of any automatic way of doing a migration, you will just have to install SoftEther on the new machine, then copy the following files/directories:

vpn_server.config
chain_certs/

Re: SoftEther VPN Server migration from one server to anothe

Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2016 7:13 am
by COIN
I will give it a try as soon as i can, because the two server are in production

Re: SoftEther VPN Server migration from one server to anothe

Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2016 12:02 pm
by moatazelmasry
Then please experiment first in some lab environment before applying that to live servers

Re: SoftEther VPN Server migration from one server to anothe

Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2016 8:06 am
by thisjun
If you want to move DDNS name, you have to overwrite DDNS key in configuration after running destination VPN server.

Re: SoftEther VPN Server migration from one server to anothe

Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2020 7:22 am
by rolee
moatazelmasry wrote:
Mon Oct 17, 2016 4:07 pm
Hmmm I don't know of any automatic way of doing a migration, you will just have to install SoftEther on the new machine, then copy the following files/directories:

vpn_server.config
chain_certs/
I tried this when I was migrating my VPN server to another separate host server to reduce on the load on the first host server. It worked perfectly well.
Thanks a lot

Re: SoftEther VPN Server migration from one server to another

Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2020 8:37 am
by aboka
hi, this is not an answer since others hv posted them earlier. this is more a sharing and hopefully someone could shed some light for me ;p

i hv tried migrating the server recently, i backup and restore hamcore.se2 as well. Most of the things works, but not everything. for eg. i hvto manually edit and change the Ddns in the config so the new server would change and use the old Ddns. But one thing i couldn't make it work is SSL certificates. So OpenVPN, SE and L2TP works just like before, but MS-SSTP wouldn't work....

the best i could do is backup and restore the cert using Server Manager(since there are nothing in the chain_certs folder), but it will say CN name is different and fail....

anyone could help?

cheers,