Hi all,
I am very new (about 48 hrs old!), user to FreeSBIE.
>From what I can see, it can do everything I need it to.
The first ting i need it for is to help me install a new server, and move some
old server data to it,
Migrate 2 servers to newly staged machines.
Let me know if you think this will work:
(The following is a post that was sent to the FreeBSD Users list, but was never
responded to):
Senario:
I have 7 Servers, but this discussion only involves two older ones (to be
upgraded), 1 new one (to be deployed), and 1 excellent one (that I want to
clone).
1 old one had FreeBSD 4.7
1 old one has FreeBSD 4.10
1 brand new one has nothing.
1 Excellent machine has 6.2 RELEASE, and is in production.
All of my servers use the same filesystems structures (/ /usr /var /home and
/mnt (for the netowrk shares)).
All servers are in the same location,
All are connected to a WAN (via ethernet),
All are connected to a VLAN (via ethernet).
Another machine connected the same as above has a NFS share with lots of room.
Steps:
1. Backup ALL data and put in a safe location :-)
2. Make complete file dumps of all filesystems on the machine that is to be
cloned,
3. Using the live CD, create the needed file systems on the 'Blank' machine,
4. Connect the "BLANK" machine to the NFS machine IS THIS POSSIBLE USING THE
LIVE CD?
5. restore the clone dumps to the "BLANK" machine,
6. Remove all previous machine and user specific config data from the newly
loaded "BLANK" machine,
7 Make a new complete set of file dumps and save to the NFS machine, (skip to
step 9 for the old machines).
8. Configure and use the blank machine.
DONE
(the rest below would only apply to the two OLD machines being upgraded),
9. Using the live CD, redo the drive repartition and disklabel newfs etc, to
get pristine drives,
10. connect OLD machine to NFS.
10. Using the dumps made in step 8, load the new OS,
11. Using the backed up data from step 1, reload the /home, redo rc.conf, and a
bunch of other user type data...
12. Test and fix the minor forget me nots ....
(DONE)
repeat steps 9-12 for other old machine.
>From what I can see, some of my virtual passwd files will still work (from 4.7
>+ 4.10 TO 6.2 COMMENTS?
>From what I can see, the master.passwd $!$ passwords should work from 4.7 +
>4.10 to 6.2 COMMENTS?
The old style mysql passwords should work as long as I am using the
-OLD-PASSWORD option. ( I can redo the passwords if I have to anyways.
Any comments from users who have used FreeSBIE would be greatly appreciated.
-Grant
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