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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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How can I minimize downtime when moving HTTPS/HSTS domains to a new server?

I'm moving to a new server and looking for the best way to minimize downtime. On my current server I'm using nginx, HTTPS only In my nginx config I have: Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=31536000" The last time I moved servers, the HSTS setting…
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Using svnadmin hotcopy for repository migration

I need to migrate a very large number of repositories to a remote server and am wondering whether svnadmin dump or svnadmin hotcopy is the right tool for the job. The SVN versions would be the same for both servers, however most of the repositories…
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New file and print server

We are in the progress of migrating to a new file and print server that has a different name to the old server. we have a lot of mapped drives based on departments as well as a lot of printers. I was just wondering what would be (in your opinion)…
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Xen Live Migration Across Network Storage

If you have two network storage boxes (iSCSI specifically) can you livemigrate (either with Xen or XenServer) across the storage units or does it just have to be done when the VM's are paused/shutdown due to the storage being on a different physical…
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Fully Upgrade SQL Database

We have a SQL Server 2000 server that was formerly running on SQL Server 7, with the result that the default collation is not what seems to be the default set later for SQL 2000 and up (it is SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS rather than…
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Migrating from Apache 2.2 to 2.4, ssl.conf is ignored

I'm rolling out a test installation of EL7 with Apache 2.4. I copied my existing /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf to the new system, set up selinux, verified all the cert paths were kosher and systemctl httpd start started the service. Apache is running…
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Dovecot migration fails: "[…] specify separator […]"

I'm setting up a new dovecot server ("A") and I'm trying to migrate one mailbox from another IMAP server ("B", Dovecot as well). On new server A my dovecot.conf looks like this: […] mapc_host = mailserver.ZZZZZZ.com imapc_user =…
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Merging Novell and Active Directory Users

After having two separate companies merge into one, we were left with two existing environments, a Novell environment, and an Active Directory environment. Prior administration decided not to merge them, and instead maintain both environments…
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How do I persuade Nginx to redirect all requests except /robots.txt?

I'm using Nginx and pointing a couple of old domain names to a new site. The first block in this config works fine for how I need old.domain to behave when redirecting to new.domain. In the second block, I'm trying to forward any request for…
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Azure AD Connect and server 2012 R2 essentials compatibility

The prerequisites for using Azure AD Connect don't list Server 2012 R2 Essentials, but they do list Server 2012 R2. Normally I understand pre-requisites just fine, but I'm not sure about the differences in this case between Server 2012 R2 and Server…
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Windows 10 authentication against Azure AD

I am trying to build a new Windows 10 machine to authenticate against an Azure AD. I have told Windows that the owner of the machine is "My Organisation" and I want to "join Azure AD". However when I put my username in I get "Your organisation…
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2003 to 2012r2 DC migration; unable to promote target server

I have a network with a single domain. The PDC is running Server 2003 SP1 and is unable to be upgraded. The PDC also runs DNS and DHCP for the network. I have another server running 2003 SP2, which is my BDC. I have a new server, running 2012r2…
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Migrating web site from local PC to Windows 2008 R2 (IIS 7.5)

The company I work for is interested in moving a local Intranet web site I made for them from my test box to one of their servers. My testbox is running Windows 7 64x, and the server is running Windows 2008 R2. The web site is written in PHP and…
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Moving DNS and AD DS to their own servers

I have one WINDOWS SERVER 2012 running my DNS and AD DS on the same server. I am trying to move DNS to it's own server and ADDS to it's own server as well. What I have done so far is setup ADDS on the new server then added it to the domain to be…
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IMAP Account Migration/Synchronisation

I was wondering if anyone knew of any easy way to synchronise and then migrate an IMAP account between two hosting accounts? I have SSH access but within jailshell (cpanel/WHM access also), but no root access to the server. Host may be willing to…
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