On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 01:16:53PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > on Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 10:29:04AM +0100, Przemyslaw Bak ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > We are going to move one of our production servers > > from redhat (basically 6.1 upgraded to 6.2) to debian (potato 2.2r2). > > It works as a samba server (over 120 accounts, printing included as well) > > and oracle server. > > > > I know there shouldn't be any (big) problems but does anybody did > > something like that ? Any experience ? Clues ? > > > > It is important for us because it is production server and I can't > > stop my company working because something will fail. > > My personal recommendation would be to set up a new server using Debian, > particularly if this is your first Debian experience, and get various > services up and running. The biggie is likely to be Oracle. I've > installed it on RH, haven't messed with Debian. My experience is that > proprietary SW installation and configuration is orders of magnitude > more difficult than free software.
I use debian since bo (or hamm; I don't remember which was earlier). Regarding Oracle - we can always export and import. That is no problem. I was wandering if there will be any problems with e.g. /etc/shadow etc. But I've already checked it out and it works. > If the replacement server is performing satisfactorially, transfer data > over from the old server, and move services to it. Once you've > established that it's satisfactory, you can repurpose the old box. I am going do use rsync to synchronize data once a day so that it will be easy to swap the two servers (eg. in the night). > If your company won't won't swing for a new box to test a deployment, > I'd strongly recommend you leave things as is. No way :-) I am an administrator of a few boxes with debians and a few with redhat. And debian servers takes me less time to maintain it. So because I am lazy ;-) I want to have less work. przemol
