On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 14:31, Shawn Grover wrote: > Hi gang. > > I'm will be rebuilding my server soon, and am looking for ideas on how to minimize > my down time. >
Are you rebuilding to upgrade hardware or operating system? I'm assuming OS. > It's a Gentoo server (if that helps). I considered maybe just putting a different > hard drive in the box as a slave, then partitioning it and chrooting to that drive > and run my installs there, then when ready, make the new drive the primary. Is this > feasible? Is there a better way? Is there a way I can do this without requiring a > second drive? If need be, I am willing to just wipe my current drive and start with > a new install, but this will result in approx 2 or 3 days of being down. > Interesting. If you have a spare hard drive and computer of somewhat similar internals you could just build up your drive locally, configure it as best you can, and swap them out. You could even precompile your kernel to the proper arch as the new hardware, just to have it ready. They'll be some bits and pieces leftover depending on how thorough you were in mirroring the configurations, but it's not too bad. Is the 2-3 days you mentioned for a new install from Gentoo compiling? I think you can guess what my next suggestion will be if downtime is a serious consideration. > Thanks for any tips or suggestions. > > Shawn > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
