On 07/12/10 19:00, Ted Wynnychenko wrote: > Hello: > > I was very happy with myself after setting up a file server for my home with > some old hardware (and some new old hardware). Everything works great. > > Now, I have come into possession of some "better" old hardware (an "actual" > server - Compaq Evo W8000 - with SCSI disks! Wow, that's big for me). > > So, I wanted to move my fileserver over. > > I was reading the FAQ (14.10) about backing up, and I think this will work, > but I have a couple of basic questions, if anyone has the time to answer. > > 1. Since I will be moving to new hardware, and from ide to scsi disks, > I will need to modify /etc/fstab. Is there anything else I should be > thinking about editing for the move to new hardware (the network card will > be the same, since it's moving too). I can't think of anything other than > fstab.
Nope. General rule: fstab and hostname.*, and the later is taken care of in your case by moving the card (PROBABLY. I presume the new HW has the some kind of network interface, if your card is a different kind of interface, no problem. If the on-board is the same kind of chip (or similar family), you might have an issue, in that you might need to use device #1 instead of #0 (i.e., bge1 instead of bge0, or em1 instead of em0). It is..disturbing..how few OSs are this simple to migrate between different hardware. > 2. I note that in the example for backing up and restoring that "raw" > devices are used. In my situation, I will be going from ide to a usb drive, > and then from the usb drive to scsi disks. So, the ide drive I can't access > raw, but I don't think this is an issue. Is it? And, if I don't read from > the "raw" device with dump, it's still okay to write to the raw device with > restore, right? actually, if you are going to an interim device, you will be dumping to a file (on a file system on that device), so you will go raw device to file, then file to raw device. > I think these are pretty basic questions, and I think I would figure it out > on my own when I do it. > > I guess I am looking for peace of mind that I am on the right track. Mostly, yes. :) Nick.
