Changing Operating System

[charliecreed]

Hello,

I have been using Ubuntu for a year now to use as my web-server, however I have had enough of it, It's just not suitable for a server!

I'm going to change the Operating System to Debian 3.1

Now, I am moving all my servers into a new datacentre soon and I think this would be the perfect time to change the operating system while Im there.

Is their any tool which can do a whole backup of everything? So all I have to do is install directadmin back on it and build it up then all the users would be back on it etc.

I was thinking of doing the directadmin admin backup then do:

/home/
/etc/passwd
/usr/local/directadmin/

The directadmin backup seems to do the rest from what I can see

What you guys think?

 

[existenz]

As for a OS why not FreeBSD? or if you don't like Unix then RedHat ES or Cent is a better solution.

Get the new server setup and racked. Then install DirectAdmin. With nothing running on it you can create the backup folder in the admin's directory or just run the backup script once and will create it for you with correct perm.

When you get ready to move everything. Use DirectAdmin's reseller's backup tools to make a backup. Then via a command line you can sftp or scp or whatever tool you want to move the files from the old server to the new server's backup folder.

Now simply use it to restore the accounts. Works like a charm for me for migrating OS's as well as major upgrades.

Confirm it all works and you should be good.