hello
I run some FreeBSD 4.11 servers, but since it's losing its support this month, I'd like to migrate to FreeBSD 6.1
I found it's almost impossible to do this migration another way then reinstalling everything, so I'd like to know how you suggest it to be done
my main idea is to have another server setted up with the current HD as backup and with FreeBSD 6.1 and DirectAdmin installed
then I'd like to do a couple of "cp", reboot and get everything working as before
my idea was to replace the new /usr/local/directadmin/ dir by the old one and same for /home/, /var/mail/, /var/spool/, some /etc files and some others dirs/files (that you could help me recall )
seems so simple and I'll probably forget something, so I'd like to know if anyone have already done that and/or have suggestions
do you think that using the DA backup/restore tool would be more appropriate?
I want that to be as fast as possible (I would expect it to take no more than 2 hours)
the idea would also be to set the DNS first and then start to recover account by account so the downtime be small for the first account restored and big for the last one... but not big for all of them
with raw system files copy (with the "cp" command I told), I'd first install the DNS files to archive that
I run some FreeBSD 4.11 servers, but since it's losing its support this month, I'd like to migrate to FreeBSD 6.1
I found it's almost impossible to do this migration another way then reinstalling everything, so I'd like to know how you suggest it to be done
my main idea is to have another server setted up with the current HD as backup and with FreeBSD 6.1 and DirectAdmin installed
then I'd like to do a couple of "cp", reboot and get everything working as before
my idea was to replace the new /usr/local/directadmin/ dir by the old one and same for /home/, /var/mail/, /var/spool/, some /etc files and some others dirs/files (that you could help me recall )
seems so simple and I'll probably forget something, so I'd like to know if anyone have already done that and/or have suggestions
do you think that using the DA backup/restore tool would be more appropriate?
I want that to be as fast as possible (I would expect it to take no more than 2 hours)
the idea would also be to set the DNS first and then start to recover account by account so the downtime be small for the first account restored and big for the last one... but not big for all of them
with raw system files copy (with the "cp" command I told), I'd first install the DNS files to archive that