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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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Migrate Team Foundation Server 2010 to new hardware

Situation: TFS was installed on a windows 7 pc, to replace the source safe 2005. People log in via the tfs web portal and visual studio users connect also to tfs. Now a new server arrived and the TFS needs to be migrated to the new server. What I…
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What is best practice for upgrades with AWS autoscaling and database migrations?

I would like to use a combination of an ELB and AutoScaling for a web application. For upgrades to the web application that don't involve changing the database, I can simply rotate all the instances in the AG with an updated image, etc. However, if…
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Transferring data from old dedicated server to a new one

I have a Windows 2003 dedicated server account with WebFusion and they are just awful, I'm not afraid to say. I would like to transfer to a GoDaddy Windows 2008 dedicated server in the next week or two , but struggle to see how we're going to…
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Migrating to new HDDs

I am running a W2k3 Server on a software raid 1 using two old PATA drives. I now want to replace them with two new SATA drives. What's the easiest way to go about this? Since uptime isn't really an issue at this point, I was thinking about breaking…
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How to transfer/recreate users, domain, active directory settings etc from Windows Server 2003 SBS to 2008 R2 Enterprise

This is the first time I'm doing such a job so, I will greatly appreciate any detail instructions/steps please. As the title say, how do I transfer OR recreate(from a scratch) users, domain, active directory etc settings and configuration from…
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How to create a SQL Server database from a mysqldump file automatically on a daily basis?

Recently, a vendor announced that they were upgrading their processes, and an automated, daily data dump we are getting from them will now come in a MySQL datadump format. Unfortunately, we're a Microsoft-only shop, so we can't import those files…
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Howto migrate the system partion to another disk on Windows 2008 enterprise

I'm trying to move a windows 2008 system partition, on an older 1/2T drive to a new partition on a new drive. What would be the best way of doing it. I've had a look at the bcd registry using bcdedit to see if anything needds changed, and also…
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dfs replication: One replication group per share or a single replication group for all shares

I am currently migrating from a Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard to a Windows Server 2008 file server. I want to do a "soft" migration by using dfs replication. Now I am wondering what is the best solution to do this a) one replication group per…
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Move exchange mailboxes cross forest

Having a hard time migrating user mailboxes across 2 forests. I've set up ADMT 3.2, No dns issues and fully route-able between the domains etc. Have come to migrate user mailboxes and the exchange shell just comes back with ... [PS]…
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Should I phase out our Windows Domain entirely?

Over the last year we have migrated almost all services that used to run on our Windows server (SBS 2003 Premium) to another server running Linux. The last few services will shortly be moving to a new Windows 2003 Server running as a VM on top of…
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Question: MySQL db Migration from Server(A) to Server(B), which tables?

When migrating a MySQL database from Server(A) to Server(B) which tables should be dumped and migrated to Server(B), including user grants? I don't want to have to manually re-enter user accounts and passwords. I wish to do this using a third part…
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How do I migrate disks from one Dell PE 2850 to another?

I had a Dell PE 2850 die and I need to move its SCSI disks over to another PE 2850. These disks were in RAID1. I tried moving them over and just hoping the PERC would do the right thing, but it didn't auto-mount them or anything. In the PERC 4e/Di…
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XServe G5 to Ubuntu

I currently have an Apple XServe G5, running OSX server 10.4. As you can imagine, 10.4 has become increasingly annoying due to the high difficulty of updating the server software (Apache, PHP, MySQL, not to mention ClamAV). I am considering putting…
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Converting from 32-bit Linux to 64-bit LInux -- Amazon Web Services EC2 cloud server -- Import AMI

My client would like to upgrade from our current development 32-bit server to a much larger server running on a 64 bit platform. I'd very much so like to just import a snapshot of my current server's AMI (the 32 bit), but I'm thinking I can't do…
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How to migrate Munin graph history

I have a pretty basic munin configuration, with a host in my munin.conf like this [old;name] and a Plugin, that gives host_name: name I changed the munin.conf to [new;name] the host_name in the Plugin remained the same. Now the Plugin shows, but…
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