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Questions tagged [migration]

The process of moving one system or service from one location or model to another.

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Moving Server to new Hardware - SBS 2008

We have very quickly out-grown our Small Business Server 2008 current hardware and have decided to purchase a complete new server. What is the best and easiest way to move the server to new hardware? It is one complete box, we do not have any…
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Sharing workgroup and domain accounts on the same system: is it possible and what to consider?

Our company (a small web firm) will soon me migrating from a workgroup-based environment to a domain-based environment (Windows Server 2008). Some of our team members (myself included) work mainly from our laptops and have a lot of private stuff…
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Convert hard drive to Virtual Machine

I'm looking for a way to convert a raw hard drive image (from a machine that had Windows 10 installed on it) to a bootable working virtual machine, preferable VMware based. Everything I'm finding online talks about converting a machine that is…
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AWS Database Migration Service requires a role not mentioned in documentation

I am trying to perform a database migration using AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) from a self-managed database on EC2 to AWS RDS. I get this message when I try to run the task to perform the migration. dms-access-for-tasks IAM Role not…
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Firewall Considerations While Migrating from SBS 2003 to SBS 2008

I'm currently running a Windows SBS 2003 with ISA 2000 and will be migrating to a new server containing Windows SBS 2008, Standard Edition. Since SBS 2008's internal firewall should not be seen as any substitute for an external firewall, I'm looking…
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Migrating email from Cpanel to Google Apps

I'm busy moving web hosts at the moment, from a typical Cpanel installation to a cloud based service with a custom control panel. Rather than manage my clients emails on the new host I've decided to setup a Google Apps account per domain and let…
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mount: mounting /dev on /root/dev failed: No such file or directory after converting lxc to virtual machine

I've been trying to convert an lxc container to a virtual machine, but I've encountered a problem when trying to boot. I end up with the (initramfs) command line and I've got the following errors: mount: mounting /dev on /root/dev failed: No such…
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Clone a remote Linux server with rsync and migrate it locally as Virtual Machine

I have a CentOS6.9 Linux server remotely on a VPS Provider and I need to clone my remote server on my local computer as a Virtual Machine for examination purposes. I made a full server backup without compression to another remote server (rsync.net)…
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How to migrate the sonatype-nexus repository from one instance to another?

We have two nexus instances running on two different Linux servers. We are planning to have only single instance for all apps and hence wanted to move the repositories from a smaller nexus to another one. In Nexus Tip: Moving Artifacts Between Nexus…
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Active Directory users migration between domains without trust relationship

Is there any way to make bulk Active Directory users migration from one domain (forestA) to another (forestB) without establishing trust? Trust between forests cannot be established since forestB already has domain with same name as forestA. Any…
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PostgreSQL 7.4 => 8.1 migration: timezone issue

Okay, so I'm migrating Project Open to a new server (opensource project management system built on OpenACS which uses AOLServer) and ran into a very strange issue: importing a 7.4 dump automatically adjusts "timestamp with time zone" values to GMT…
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How to copy a Windows program to another Windows machine?

I'm interested to know how likely it is that the following steps will result in the application running on my new machine will mirror the application on my production machine. Background: I have Windows application running in a Windows 2008 R2 VM in…
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How do I migrate Proxmox VM to another computer in a cluster?

Original: I am running Proxmox 4.2 with a Debian 8 (Jessie) VM. I have DRBD running between two desktop computers in a cluster and I have a third node in the cluster which is a laptop not running DRBD. It is going to be used for offline migration…
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Would rsync be better than tar, wget and untar?

I am migrating to a new server and, as well as html/php files, have a directory which contains around 90,000 files totalling 24GB in size which needs to be moved. When I did a test migration, I used tar to create a tarball then wget on the new host…
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Upgrading from SharePoint Foundation 2013 to SharePoint Server 2013 Enterprise

TechNet has an article for this that start with point 1 and ends on point 2. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/16033.sharepoint-2013-migrate-from-sharepoint-foundation-2013-to-sharepoint-server-2013.aspx This is not very…
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