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The easiest way to do this is to export a migration dump file on your source machine, install Collaborator on your destination machine, create a new empty database, and then import the migration dump file into the new empty database. To do that you must use the same version of Collaborator on both source and destination machines.
When exporting the migration dump file, you will specify to perform a complete system dump. This copies the database into the zip file. You will also specify to include file contents. This copies the content cache into the zip file. (For those who haven't read it) see this article:
https://support.smartbear.com/collaborator/docs/server/admin-tasks/backup.html#migrate
There shouldn't be any problems going from MySQL v5 to MySQL v8 but see the article about setting up for MySQL:
https://support.smartbear.com/collaborator/docs/server/install/db/mysql.html
The dump file is DB-agnostic. It merely represents the tables in an XML format.
