The process of moving one system or service from one location or model to another.
Questions tagged [migration]
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AD migration from SBS2011 to 2012 R2 and new domain
We have an existing SBS2011 server, and would like to migrate to a new 2012 R2 server. Ideally, we'd like to do this in a new domain - 1. we'd like to reorganize the OUs to remove the "SBS" named stuff (i.e. all users aren't in users, they're in…

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7zip command line - cannot find code that works with archives
We are in the process of a server move, both to a new host and from a Server 2k8 box to a Server 2012 box. The server in question has a few drives that hold our sites and some utilities. These drives were duplicated exactly during the move. Data,…

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2k3 to 2k12 AD, DC and DNS Migration
First off this is a Windows Server 2003 to 2012 DC/DNS/AD migration. We do have a backup 2003 DC/DNS/AD server as well, but I don't think that is a concern at the moment but can be used if needed. I have already done some of the heavy lifting and…

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Performing a migration to a 2012 FL Active Directory domain/forest?
I'm looking to perform a migration of an existing 2008 R2 Active Directory forest to a new(ish) 2012 forest, and bumped into the issue that there don't seem to be any compatible tools to do so. The latest version of ADMT (v3.2) isn't supported in a…

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How to run rsync without staying logged in?
I want to run the following rsync command to transfer a folder from a remote server to my current one sudo -r -a -v -e 'ssh -p portnum' username@serverip:/home/path/* /home/path this directory is quite large in both size and structure and the…

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Hyper-V 2012 replication to multiple hosts
With Hyper-V 2012, it is possible to configure the primary server to replicate to a slave server, to allow virtual guests to be live migrated to the slave server, when maintenance is required on the primary server.
My question is as follows:
Is it…

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Migrate multiple svn repositories into single git repository
We want to migrate from svn to git permanently to be able to use git's better features in terms of branching and collaboration.
Our current svn repository looks like this
svnrepo/
frontend/
trunk
branches/
ng/
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Migrate from SBS 2011 to 2008 Standard
I have a customer who is running a Windows Domain with a Windows Small Business Server 2011.
Now I want to "update" (or downgrade?) to a 2008 R2 Domain.
For two reasons.
The customer has nearly reached the SBS user limit
The customer now has a…

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How to migrate VirtualBox 2 virtual computer to VmWare server2?
How to migrate VirtualBox 2 virtual computer (virtual drive) to VmWare Server 2? Computer itself runs Linux, virtual computers run Windows XP and Windows Vista. I need support for GRE protocol, which is not done in VirtualBox.

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XenServer migrate machines between hosts
I have a XenServer 5.6 Free setup with 5 VMs (Windows and Linux) using about 1.5TB of directly attached storage.
Because our virtualisation needs have grown a bit, we currently are preparing a faster XenServer 6.0 Free machine with more RAM and a…

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Enterprise IPv6 Migration - End of proxypac ? Start of Point-to-Point ? +10K users
Let's start with a diagram :
We can see a "typical" IPv4 company network with :
An Internet acces through a proxy
An "Others companys" access through an dedicated proxy
A direct access to local resources
All computers have a proxy.pac file that…

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What are the good ways to migrate a RAID array to bigger disks?
I'm looking to replace my hard-drives with bigger-ones and I would like to know what are the best practices in doing this.
I have a HP ProLiant with its 256MB version of RAID controller:
03:00.0 RAID bus controller: Hewlett-Packard Company Smart…

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2003 DC AD upgrade to 2008 on second server migration plan
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Writing a plan to prepare for a 2003 to 2008 active dir upgrade. 2003 AD exists on a single domain controller and has been upgraded to 2003 functionality. I have add a new 2008 Standard R2 server as a member server.
note: Exchange 2007…

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Ubuntu + ZFS: How to migrate entire system to new disks?
Here's my scenario:
I have Ubuntu with native ZFS installed on a server with 2 x 500 GB SATA disks. I installed it following this guide: https://github.com/dajhorn/pkg-zfs/wiki/HOWTO-install-Ubuntu-to-a-Native-ZFS-Root-Filesystem
So I have on disk 1…

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How do I migrate, dump, or restore a VirtualBox system?
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What is the procedure for dumping a VirtualBox system? Note that this is not migrating the guest OS from hardware to virtualization or anything else mentioned by Googling "migrate virtualbox". I mean:
Moving all guest data (virtual…

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