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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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Experience in migrating from Apache to nginx?

I'd like to get some feedback about a migration From Apache to nginx. My goal is to reduce the memory footprint of the web server. Currently, I use the following modules.features on Apache: multiple virtual hosts Server Side Include Fast…
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How to best migrate a server to new hardware

I'm getting ready to migrate a server from old hardware to new hardware. I'm thinking of doing a P2P migration rather than actually rebuilding, reinstalling and migrating databases. The servers are Dell 2950s with Hardware RAID, running Windows.…
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How to transfer user accounts to a new Linux machine?

I currently have a Linux box hosting our internal Subversion repository. Access to this repository is via svn+ssh with authenticating happening against user accounts on the machine. I have recently acquired a shiny, new box (also installed with…
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Migrate Hosted VPS server to my own server

Is it possible to direct copy an entire VPS host to my own server? My current VPS is in the US and the response times from/to Denmark are bugging me a lot. I have previously had my own server, running FreeBSD, before I switched to the VPS. For the…
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How to migrate a web site from one server to another with minimal downtime?

I have a server hosting a web site and other services that needs to be reinstalled. I would like to relocate these services to another server temporarily, with as little downtime as possible. Both servers are in the same data center, and can be on…
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How do I migrate a KVM guest from host to another?

I have a KVM guest that I need to migrate from one host to another. The migration does not need to be done hot. Its storage is currently backed by LVM block devices, with a bridged network adapter. Both servers have the same kernel, version of…
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How can I migrate Dovecot from one server to another?

I have a Dovecot installation on a Fedora 12 "server" at home and I want to move all my mailboxes onto a virtual CentOS 5 server. How can I do this? Which files to I have to copy? Is it even enough to copy files or do I have to be prepared for some…
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How to migrate a bare metal Linux installation to a virtual machine

I'd like to migrate a RHEL5 installation from a bare-metal installation to a virtual machine. I'm not very experienced when it comes to Linux backup and restore procedures, so I'm looking for advice on the best way to accomplish this. The…
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Setting up a Windows Domain in a O365-only company

My company is quite young and small, but since we're growing, we want to rollout some software deployment solution. We haven’t decided which one yet, but they usually need a Windows Domain, and we don't have one. We use Office 365 for everything…
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How can I migrate a VPS from one provider to another while keeping configurations? Can I just use `rsync / destination:/`?

How can I migrate from one VPS to another, while keeping the configurations? I saw this question Best way to migrate data between two linux VPS But that was only to migrate the data. I have set up an email server (Dovecot/Postfix) which is a pain…
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How can you map server dependencies in an undocumented environment?

Imagine this situation: CompanyA is acquiring a subdivision of CompanyB. CompanyB lays off most of their staff for that subdivision and is not helpful when asking for documentation. Now, you must use ADMT to migrate users, groups, workstations, and…
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repetitive errors on user machines - DC migration from a windows XP based to a windows 7 based network

I'm replacing all the old windows XP machines in my network to new machines running windows 7. I hoped it would be an easy task, but apparently it isn't: all the machines I've installed (using WDS) are repetitively showing peculiar errors and going…
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How to export a VMware ESXi 5 VM into a file to restore it later?

As I've bought a server it had a RAID controlleer which was not supported by VMWare ESXi 5, so I had to install it in a bare non-RAID configuration. Now as I've bought a supported RAID controller I am going to install it and, reconfigure all the…
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Mounting a linux image built with "dd" on Mac OSX 10.7

I recently did a ssh root@myserver "dd if=/dev/xvda " | dd of=//myimage.img as instructed by my VPS server docs at linode. I did this before to another linux system and mounted it perfectly by doing sudo mount -o loop myimage.img…
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Dovecot Migration and old mails

I'm migrating my mails from an old server to a new one, the configuration is good (mysql virtual accounts & imap only), with dovecot and postfix. It's already running for other users, I just want to merge old accounts from the old server to the new…
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