Have an old piece of shit server that is limping along. have ordered a
replacement (core2duo, 4GB of RAM, 250GB drive)
Will be installing FreeBSD (latest Release version) on it.
I need to move MySQL databases, shell user accounts, MySQL user accounts,
saslauth users, mail spools, as well as all the installed software from the old
machine (FreeBSD 6.2) to the new machine as seamlessly as possible. I DO have
an extra static IP, so I can put the server in place and go from there.
I also have a second drive on the current server that contains rsync backups of
the entire server. I was thinking this might help if I moved the drive to the
new machine and used it as a base to restore from?
The last time I did this it was not seamless, I was down for a couple of days,
and it pissed me off royally.
Obviously there will be SOME downtime, but I would really like to get that down
to minutes and not days.
Any suggestions or RTFM links from the *nix geeks?
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