Migrating to new server

[Wido]

Hi,

Currently i am running al my DirectAdmin's on physical servers.

For more flexiblity i want to move them al the VPS-servers.

My idea is this:

I buy a temporary license and install a fresh DirectAdmin.

On the old server i backup the following files + dirs:

/etc/virtual
/etc/passwd
/etc/shadow
/etc/proftpd.conf
/etc/proftpd.passwd
/etc/proftpd.vhosts.conf
/etc/bind
/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
/home
/usr/local/directadmin/conf
/usr/local/directadmin/data/admin
/usr/local/directadmin/data/users
/var/spool/virtual

On transfer this to my new VPS and extract i there (when doing that, i shutdown all services).

When completed a change the IP-Address of my new VPS and everything should be running fine!

What files or directories did i miss wich are important?

Is this the way to do it or do you recomment another way?

 

[Wido]

Little kick?

 

[nobaloney]

Check the system backup files and directories on the new install. It'll give you an idea of what you need.

However a simple copy over isn't going to work; you'll have to use quite a bit of intelligence in merging the old system stuff with the new.

Jeff

 

[existenz]

If you are going to do this quickly (days), I have migrated a bunch of DirectAdmin server by having Mark change the ip address, then installing on the new server. Both licenses will run till it does it next license check.

Just a thought...