Background To help explain current situation.
the server facility I am in. My direct admin when they installed it for their license discount as they required they installed the license at the time.
So partition is an LVM :O which still to this day I cannot figure out a logical reason for this. I at one time did clone the drives with clonezilla to newer SSDs. I did it disk to disk and it worked, but wrote over the whole 1000 GB even though the older drives with 480GB. The new SSDS this go around are 960GB though =(. So cloning it same way wont work. Not sure if their is an option on clonezilla for this or not.
So here is how the current partition looks that direct admin is on.
So I was considering using the LVM commands to mirror it over, but not 100% sure if I cand with the other drive being smaller or not or how exactly that works as I have not read the finer details yet. As I am wondering if I should get it off of LVM and do a fresh install on the new SSDs and then restore a direct admin backup or jetbackup. Add to complications though, does the backup have my license and settings information or just hosting data? If not I wrote down all license information displayed, but not 100% sure if that is enough or more needed from server facility. As I contact them they probably do same image on the new drives and then I would have more to do to update OS again and that.
Thanks and if anythings confusing please let me know and ill clarify. I had a dozen interruptions as I was trying to write this up and even when I was trying to reread it lol.
the server facility I am in. My direct admin when they installed it for their license discount as they required they installed the license at the time.
So partition is an LVM :O which still to this day I cannot figure out a logical reason for this. I at one time did clone the drives with clonezilla to newer SSDs. I did it disk to disk and it worked, but wrote over the whole 1000 GB even though the older drives with 480GB. The new SSDS this go around are 960GB though =(. So cloning it same way wont work. Not sure if their is an option on clonezilla for this or not.
So here is how the current partition looks that direct admin is on.
So I was considering using the LVM commands to mirror it over, but not 100% sure if I cand with the other drive being smaller or not or how exactly that works as I have not read the finer details yet. As I am wondering if I should get it off of LVM and do a fresh install on the new SSDs and then restore a direct admin backup or jetbackup. Add to complications though, does the backup have my license and settings information or just hosting data? If not I wrote down all license information displayed, but not 100% sure if that is enough or more needed from server facility. As I contact them they probably do same image on the new drives and then I would have more to do to update OS again and that.
Thanks and if anythings confusing please let me know and ill clarify. I had a dozen interruptions as I was trying to write this up and even when I was trying to reread it lol.