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Questions tagged [migration]

Migrating an installation to new hardware. See also /cloning

Migrating an installation to new hardware. See also .

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Moving Linux install to a new computer

I know that it can, in some circumstances, be difficult to move a Windows installation from one computer to another (physically move the hard drive), but how does that work on Linux? Aren't most of the driver modules loaded at bootup? So…
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How to copy all my XFCE settings between two computers/machines?

Does anyone know how I can copy my customizations of XFCE's settings plus its appearance to another machine? The settings for appearance/design, panels, keyboard shortcuts and geany are not there yet, like at all. So far I have done: copied…
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rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred

I'm trying to move my emails Maildir from an old centos server to a new debian server. rsync -avz /home/me/Maildir ssh root@ipaddress:/var/vmail/me/Maildir I tried to copy an 8gb account, didn't work, try to move another about 20mb, didn't work,…
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Is is possible to copy a running process between machines?

To the best of my understanding, all linux process are actually files, is it possible to copy a running process from one machine to another? for example - copy a running tomcat server from one machine to another without having to restart the server
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Case-insensitive file system for production server?

The initial situation looks like this: The corporate software is PHP-based. It is delivered by Apache 2 on a Windows 2003 Server. It is big. It is a legacy of rather unprofessional developers who did not mind about case sensitivity or directory…
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How do I migrate configuration between computers with different hardware?

I want to migrate the configuration of an Ubuntu desktop to a new box with different hardware. What is the easiest way to do this? /etc/ contains machine and hardware specific settings so I can't just copy it blindly. A similar problem exists for…
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How would you migrate from a Windows AD to a Linux LDAP server?

I currently run a Windows server with Active Directory. But since we're no longer using Exchange 2007, it became a fancy file server with authentication. I would like to move the AD to a Linux server. What would be the best way to do this? And which…
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Migration of a working Debian 11 system to another

Assume I have two Debian 11 systems. System A with custom application setup. etc. And a vanilla system B. Now I would like to transfer the whole setup from A to B. I found some links, where users tried to transfer the whole root tree or clone their…
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Convert Debian Live USB persistent filesystem to a standalone installation

How would I convert a persistent filesystem (live-rw) from a Debian Live USB to a standalone, bootable installation that can be run on a VM? What I've tried Chrooting and installing a bootloader (grub) - Can't chroot since the filesystem (live-rw)…
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Is filename in SFTP encrypted?

Making data migration (Debian OS) from one server to another, is SFTP (Ftp with SSH) fully encrypted ? Data with file names ?
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Migrating a Virtualbox virtual machine into a physical dual-boot system

I'm running a Linux Mint 12 virtual machine in Virtualbox. I would like to move it into a dual-boot setup with my Windows 7 installation. I have lot of settings in there, and apps installed, and my research says that I cannot just copy files. I…
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Pacemaker: migrate resource without adding a "prefer" line in config

Using pacemaker in a 2 nodes master/slave configuration. In order to perform some tests, we want to switch the master role from node1 to node2, and vice-versa. For instance if the current master is node1, doing # crm resource migrate r0 node2 does…
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LXC migrate between hosts

I had setup a testsystem with LXC and installed a webserver etc. that all was not the problem. But now I want to swich to another host system also I compressed /var/lib/lxc/webserver and copied it to the other host. But there i got serval…
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Migrating away from apt-key adv

I have quite some scripts that are still using the apt-key adv command. And I know this command is deprecated. And soon becoming unable to use. Correct me if I'm wrong, but Debian 11 is the last Debian version supporting apt-key. I also know we need…
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Migrate Debian from one disc to another

I bought new computer with Win 10 pre-installed. I installed Debian on a new partition (same disc) and everything went well. But now I added new disc and I would like to move Debian to this disk. Is there an easy way to do it? I tried to use dd to…
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