Copying Datasource setup between cf10 installations

@Alex, I’m curious about this: you say in your subject that you are copying “between cf10 installations”, bun then you refer to the possibility of encryption having “changed” and the “new version” of the xml being “more bloated”. Do you mean that the old server was CF9 or earlier, and the new one is 10?

If so, then I would assert you be more cautious about just copying the neo-*.xml file(s). They are not entirely compatible between versions. (I wonder if Carl was going based on your subject, before you added what you have here, or he may have offered the same caution.)

So what would be the (perhaps) better way to do the migration?

Well, if the old and new machines are CF Enterprise, you ought to instead use the ColdFusion Archive (CAR file) mechanism, offered in the CF Admin. But if either is Standard, that option won’t be there (and while you can force it to the Dev edition by removing the license there’s more to that than I’d want to elaborate here.)

There is still another option, when you want to migrate all old settings from one server to another, and that’s to use a little-known but fully documented feature to “trick” the “migration wizard” (a feature of the CF admin, normally run only at installation) into running again, which will let you import all the settings from one old release into another. (If you have made many changes in the CF10 install, you may not want to do that, though, as it will overwrite them.) For more, see

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/Installing/WSe9cbe5cf462523a07f098214121c918ef8c-8000.html

or

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/10.0/Installing/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cdec18c28-8000.html

Hope that helps.

/charlie