-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Joe wrote: > >> My advice would be to grit your teeth and install a completely new >> system, based on your existing packages. Then copy the data and as >> much configuration information as possible. Sorry. > > it only just occurred to me that, yes, that's what i have to do > since it's currently a 32-bit system and i'm moving it to a 64-bit > server. duh. (yes, i know i could install a 32-bit OS but that would > be a waste of all that 64-bit processing power.)
If you run the 64bit kernel with 32bit userland, you are not wasting too much of that power. YMMV. You can more or less automatically get a list of installed packages from your existing install and feed it to aptitude on the new server. After that you just have to copy /etc/passwd et al., only the customized etc-files, and of course your data. I'd suggest rsync for this. Give your new server a different hostname & ip at first, check if everything works fine and then finally swap hostname & ip with the old server. Shouldn't be a lot of work. Cheers, Johannes NB: If old and new hardware are not to different (same architecture ;-) ), it is possible to just rsync all file systems of the old box to the new box, adjust fstab if it needs tweaking and reboot. When my server had some hardware problems I just took the hard disk to a different (more modern, more capable) machine and rebooted fine. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkqT3I0ACgkQC1NzPRl9qEXUGQCaA1QBYMYvzJDwicTBOgM0OeXg mtMAoIA2W+B9xzf/j1uJMkc1YOHmQR56 =xx0m -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
