On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 6:15 PM Bo Berglund <bo.bergl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, 10 Oct 2021 03:42:30 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nka...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > >> PS: > >> Is it possible to just move the existing hard drive over to the new > >> computer and > >> start it up? Or clone the content to the new computer's drive? > >> I do have a lot of other stuff that needs migration too... > > > >Maybe? You'd need to mount it, and a 10 year old hard drive is > >questionable at best. I'd use rsync: Ensure that you have SSH access > >from the new host to the old host, and you should be able to use rsync > >to copy material and run svnsync efficiently. And look up "svn > >hotcopy" for copying the basic Subversion configuration for copying > >over to a new server. > > UPDATE: To close this thread > > So I have done the migration now and it was basically painless, although time > consuming because of the way I did it... > > 1) I figured out a way to create space on the new PC disk drive from within > the > pre-installed Windows 10. This was the easy part. I left 40 GB for Windows 10 > and got about 450 GB free space. > > 2) Then I spent a bunch of time figuring out how to boot both my old PC and > the > new one from USB live media. > Turned out to be impossible on the old eMachine PC but I *could* boot it from > a > DVD disk with Ubuntu ISO. But no USB drive...
I'd have mirrored that content to a VM on the Windows box. Tastes var, but I'm glad this worked out for you. > The new PC uses UEFI so it took a while to get the USB Ubuntu media to boot, > until I found the correct way to modify UEFI settings to allow it. > > 3) Then I ran the Live DVD on my old PC and using GParted I could clone the > partitons on that to a USB connected hard drive, I also made the partition on > the target smaller. > > 4) Booting the new PC from a live USB with Ubuntu 20 I could install it in > multi-boot fashion on the new PC in the now freed up space. I let it use just > as > much partition space as is needed for Ubuntu plus a bit more. > > 5) Next I started Ubuntu on the new PC and using GParted I copied over the old > PC Ubuntu partition to the new PC hard disk after connecting the USB disk to > it. > > 6) Finally once that was done I also updated the GRUB boot loader so it also > included the old server in the boot menu. > > 7) With all that done I could boot into the migrated Ubuntu 18.04 server on > the > new hardware and it did run! > So I could do the apt full-upgrade to get all new stuff and it announced that > it > was ready for a dist-upgrade too. > Did that and now the server is 20.04 and all I have checked works fine. I'm glad this also worked completely in-polace. I've run into older filesystems with older operating systems that did not behave gracefully when updated in plac. > 8) Final stop: > I now reprogrammed the port forwards on my router to go towards the new server > rather than the old off-line server. > > And the next svn sync operation from the main server came through successfully > and it is back in operation but on a new hardware system and running Ubuntu > 20.04 rather than 18.04. > > My websites also work fine using the existing LetsEncrypt certificates. Yay! I admit that I've pretty much given up on HTTPS based access to Subversion, years ago, and use svn+ssh by preference, partly because of tendencies of httpd admins to try and build the kitchen sink into its configuration.
