On Sat, Sep 28, 2024 at 1:42 AM Peter Boy <p...@boy-digital.de> wrote:
>
> > Am 28.09.2024 um 01:05 schrieb Jeffrey Walton <noloa...@gmail.com>:
> >
> > I have a Fedora Server running F40 on an old Proliant G5 with hardware
> > RAID1. The machine is giving too much trouble so I would like to
> > migrate to newer hardware with a single SSD. Both machines are x86_64.
> >
> > I've been researching methods to perform the migration, but I am not
> > clear on the strategy. Some folks say provide a method and say it
> > works, other folks say it does not work. I think I have hit
> > diminishing returns on reading from the web.
> >
> > I am planning on using Clonezilla to clone the image to a portable
> > drive, and then restore the image from the portable drive to the new
> > machine. I've had success with Clonezilla in the past, but I restored
> > to the same machine.
> >
> > Does anyone have experience with a migration like this? If so, can you
> > provide feedback?
>
> I did that for a couple of machines some times back. It can range from
> simple, albeit with a tedious number of steps, to extremely complicated and
> error-prone.
>
> Cloning is probably not an option here. Your old machine is a BIOS system,
> your newer one should be an UEFI system. And in any case, you should migrate
> from deprecated MBR partitioning to GPT, if you haven’t already done.
Yeah, this is a problem. Originally I was going to use legacy or mbr,
but I think I am going to avoid it now.
The original plans were more ambitious -- do the mbr restore, and then
convert to gpt. I think that is a dumb idea now based on reading the
replies in this thread.
> The details depend largely on how your current storage is organized. Did you
> follow the Fedora Server recommendation? If you are using LVM as recommended,
> it’s quite easy. So it might be helpful it you post a fdisk listing.
I think I am going to try rsync. Boot into single user mode, and then
make a backup with:
rsync -aAXv --delete \
--exclude=/dev/* --exclude=/proc/* \
--exclude=/sys/* --exclude=/tmp/* \
--exclude=/run/* --exclude=/mnt/* \
--exclude=/media/* \
--exclude="swapfile" \
--exclude="lost+found" \
/ <usb drive>
Then restore on a newly installed F40 server.
Jeff
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