Re: Re: Moving an install between architectures

2016-01-04 Thread Kelly Venechanos
Thanks for the response, Andreas. That's kind of what I was figuring. I've transferred home directories before along with /var/mail (due to my old dovecot config) and select files in the /etc directory. It's the standard way I've migrated this "server" from machine to machine as I've used it

Re: Moving an install between architectures

2016-01-04 Thread Linux User #330250
Hello Kelly! I've moved my personal desktop system from i386 (Pentium III) to ppc (Power Mac G4) to ppc64 (Power Mac G5) to amd64 (AMD Phenom 2). I used Gentoo linux though. All user data, configuration files, databases, documents etc. works like a charm on another architecture. I transferred by

Moving an install between architectures

2016-01-04 Thread Kelly Venechanos
I have a Power Mac G5 running Debian Jessie at the moment. I've been using it as my primary email (IMAP) server and name server for my home network along with a couple of other services. I have it configured with RAID 1 and an encrypted partition for system (which was very interesting to