Joseph M Dupré (AVAB Inc.) wrote: >>>My thought, I use Mondo-Restore to archive our current Website. I >>>was thinking of either using mondo or TAR to backup the entire >>>server. Move over to the new server and restore the entire system >>>on the new server. >>> >>> > >Have you ever tried this? I have (back when I was playing with Red Hat >versions 6 >and 7) and it never worked due to hardware differences. You may spend a lot >of >time trying to get the new machine to boot, manually loading the correct >hardware >drivers. That was always something that bugged me about Linux, as this sort >of >hardware change/upgrade is quite easy with Windows. >Has this changed with the later versions of Red Hat/Fedora? > > I recently moved Fedora Core 2 from a home built dual celeron 550mhz Abit box I built to a P4 Compaq Desktop box and it worked without a hitch. So long as the kernel has all the drivers it needs for the source and target machines then you are fine. For instance if you move from Intel 32 bit to Intel 64 bit you'd have to have both kernels installed and configure Grub / Lilo so you could pick either from the boot menu. Same I guess for AMD? Is there an AMD kernel?
Anyways I did it. The kernel used to be annoying way back when... but now it's really stable. I'd say in Redhat 4 / Redhat 5 days I used to have troubles. From Redhat 8 and onward it has been good. -Josh _______________________________________________ Apache-FP mailing list Apache-FP@lists.joshie.com http://lists.joshie.com/mailman/listinfo/apache-fp Donations: http://www.amazon.com/paypage/PT5LZITM9L227
