Re: Moving server to new server with tar

2015-06-08 Thread Linux4Bene
Op Mon, 08 Jun 2015 16:06:41 -0600, schreef Bob Proulx: > Linux4Bene wrote: > Since /dev is dynamic anything done to it will evaporate after a reboot. > After a reboot it will all be as if nothing had been overwritten there. > If you get to the point of a reboot then there is nothing lingering

Re: Moving server to new server with tar

2015-06-08 Thread Petter Adsen
On Mon, 8 Jun 2015 16:49:45 -0600 Bob Proulx wrote: > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Every file. File by file. I liked this presentation and found it > > > quite interesting. > > > > > > http://marc.merlins.org/perso/linux/post_2014-01-06_My-Live-Upgrading-Many-Thousands-of-Serve

Re: Moving server to new server with tar

2015-06-08 Thread David Wright
Quoting Lisi Reisz (lisi.re...@gmail.com): > On Monday 08 June 2015 23:06:41 Bob Proulx wrote: > > Every file.  File by file.  I liked this presentation and found it > > quite interesting. > > http://marc.merlins.org/perso/linux/post_2014-01-06_My-Live-Upgrading-Many- > >Thousands-of-Servers-ProdNG

Re: Moving server to new server with tar

2015-06-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Lisi Reisz wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Every file. File by file. I liked this presentation and found it > > quite interesting. > > > > http://marc.merlins.org/perso/linux/post_2014-01-06_My-Live-Upgrading-Many-Thousands-of-Servers-ProdNG-talk-at-Linux_conf_au-2014.html That one definitely wor

Re: Moving server to new server with tar

2015-06-08 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 08 June 2015 23:06:41 Bob Proulx wrote: > Every file.  File by file.  I liked this presentation and found it > quite interesting. > >   > http://marc.merlins.org/perso/linux/post_2014-01-06_My-Live-Upgrading-Many- >Thousands-of-Servers-ProdNG-talk-at-Linux_conf_au-2014.html > > Unfortunat

Re: Moving server to new server with tar

2015-06-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Linux4Bene wrote: > schreef Bob Proulx: > thanks for your reply and the time invested. Much appreciated. > It does indeed seem tricky unless you go the full monty and replace the > whole installation except for the special dirs like dev as you noted. > In my test, I didn't get any strange results

Re: Moving server to new server with tar

2015-06-08 Thread Linux4Bene
Op Sat, 06 Jun 2015 13:59:16 -0600, schreef Bob Proulx: > This is one of those hard topics. It seems easy enough. But the > reality is that there are many subtle problems. It comes up for > discussion every so often over the years. I don't think there has ever > been a completely satisfactory

Re: Moving server to new server with tar

2015-06-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Linux4Bene wrote: > I am in the process of moving my server to another VPS. > The goal is to keep the old VPS around and convert it to backup MX & DNS > amongst other things. I will purchase the new VPS from another company so > I can't just copy the vm file/container. > > As a start, I would do

Moving server to new server with tar

2015-06-04 Thread Linux4Bene
Hi, I am in the process of moving my server to another VPS. The goal is to keep the old VPS around and convert it to backup MX & DNS amongst other things. I will purchase the new VPS from another company so I can't just copy the vm file/container. As a start, I would do a full tar archive of t