HI ya,,
I do the exact same thing,
except rename the dir instead of mounting over it. that way if the copy
missed something, you can quickly get it.
regards
John Rogers
OCE Australia
System Engineer
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ray Olszewski [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, 11 February 2000 11:47
> To: Liz Dunbar; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: moving a website
>
> I've written the advice below from memory. Would others please read
> through
> it and try to catch any details I've forgotten?
>
> At 06:23 PM 2/10/00 -0500, Liz Dunbar wrote:
> >Progress on the new 20GB second disk - partitions work on only the second
> >try, thanks everybody for your clear and patient directions. Now,
> >1. How do I get the website (about 900 pages) that's currently on
> dev/hda3
> >in /home/webmaster and its many subdirectories (mostly) to the new hdb2
> >intact? Or, can part of the website stay on hda3 and part of it be on
> hdb2?
>
> It depends a bit on the details, but the following should be one way to do
> it. I assume "work" means the partitions are mountable (have ext2
> filesystems on them).
>
> 0. Temporarily kill the webserver (so there will be no accesses to the
> filesystem while you are doing the next steps.
>
> 1. "mount /dev/hdb2 /mnt" [or any other temporary mountpoint that's free]
>
> 2. "cp -r /home/webmaster/* /mnt/" [ the -r makes it a recursive copy ...
> goes through the subdirectory tree]
>
> 3. "umount /mnt"
>
> 4. "mount /dev/hdb2 /home/webmaster"
>
> 5. Restart the Webserver.
>
> 6. Add a line to /etc/fstab to automount the new partition as part of the
> initialization done at boot time. The line is approximately as follows:
>
> /dev/hdb2 /home/webmaster ext2 defaults 0 1
>
> Make sure it is after any line that mounts something on the mount point
> /home (if your system is set up with a separate /home partition.
>
> Reminder: there is still an inaccessible copy of your Web stuff on the old
> drive, in directory /home/webmaster . The mount has higher priority, so
> the
> directory will lead to the mounted filesystem, not its old contents. But
> they are there as a backup. Once you are sure all has transferrred well,
> you
> can remove the old copy by umounting the hdb2 filesystem, cd'ing to the
> directory, and rm'ing the files.
>
> You can divide the Website between old and new locations, but setting it
> up
> is more complicated, done basically via symlinks.
>
> >2. Do I need to do anything to make the website accessible in the new
> >location with the same URL?
>
> Not if you take this approach. The new drive location will appear in the
> same place in the filesystem.
>
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