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shar0119

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We want to move directadmin with all its settings(mail and website etc) to a new physical server. Both have CentOS as operating system.

How can i do this? Is it actually possible to back the whole thing up as 1 file and restore on new server?

I appreciate your comments on this matter! Thanks in advance!
 
When I wanted my disc bigger last time, I've used GHOST. Although I suspect that you now have a newer srver and might require CentOS or Linux to be rebuilt. "Backup and restore" but last time I spoke to one of the forum seniors, I think there is no such direct restore of whole servers at this point.

I want to know too! :)
 
I am currently backing up our server for a OS reinstall. If by chance anyone has an answer sometime this evening, I would certainly be appreciative :)

Otherwise I plan on backing up /usr/local/directadmin
(plus /home, /var/named, and the mail spool)

*shrug*

hopefully that gets me everything I need.
 
shar0119 said:
We want to move directadmin with all its settings(mail and website etc) to a new physical server. Both have CentOS as operating system.

How can i do this? Is it actually possible to back the whole thing up as 1 file and restore on new server?

I appreciate your comments on this matter! Thanks in advance!
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I too am looking to do this - mainly as I haven't been able to get any help with a problem where apache keeps stopping and restarting 10+ times per day.

I will have the same IPs on the new machine. Would be nice to have a document describing how to do this (which I will look for, I just came across your post before doing a search)
 
This is exactly what sysbk (the system backup) is good for.

You'll have to restore the files yourself, but for the most part all you'll have to do is copy them over, if you're running the same version of the same OS distribution and will use the same IP#s.

Jeff
 
Hello,

jlasman said:
This is exactly what sysbk (the system backup) is good for.

You'll have to restore the files yourself, but for the most part all you'll have to do is copy them over, if you're running the same version of the same OS distribution and will use the same IP#s.

Jeff
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Will be using the same IPs, but a different, newer linux distro.

I can make individual account backups I guess, then resotre them. That would then require that I manually re-create all of the accounts on the new server. The only problem with that is I don't know the passwords for a couple of the hosting accounts.

It would be very cool if there were a way to make restoreable backups on a reseller level (including passwords) that way one could back up an individual reseller with all of their accounts to then restore it to a new machine.
 
DA staff is working on what you want, but I don't believe it's ready yet.

With a different OS version you can still use sysbk, but you have to intelligently merge at least some of the files., and if you're switching between BSD and Linux some of the files may go to different paths.

Jeff
 
Hi,

jlasman said:
DA staff is working on what you want, but I don't believe it's ready yet.

With a different OS version you can still use sysbk, but you have to intelligently merge at least some of the files., and if you're switching between BSD and Linux some of the files may go to different paths.

Jeff
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going from Whitebox 3.x to CentOS 4.4 - the Whitebox machine is having some issues and yum isn't working anymore - gets various errors, which is part of the reason for moving stuff. That and the new machine is much beefier.

I have never used sysbk, so I might be safer to just back up the individual sites and restore them that way. Not the most time effective, but as many of the sites are internal, they aren't a big deal.
 
Go for it then.

How about using reseller backups?

You do have to recreate the reseller on the new box before you restore the reseller backup, and you do have to restore the reseller's actual username before you restore the rest, but it seems to work well.

Jeff
 
That would be the best, haven't tried a reseller backup before - might as well give it a shot :)

Thanks

jlasman said:
Go for it then.

How about using reseller backups?

You do have to recreate the reseller on the new box before you restore the reseller backup, and you do have to restore the reseller's actual username before you restore the rest, but it seems to work well.

Jeff
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Quick question, are you referring to the 'manage user backups' link under the reseller account or a system level back up of the files in the reseller account?

Just trying to make sure I do this the right way :)
 
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