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Wordpress migration on Ubuntu with no or minimal downtime

As part of a customer project I have to migrate a wordpress (WP) installation from one digital ocean droplet to a different one. I consider to execute tests of the target system AFTER update of the ...
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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 ...
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How to remove Fedora (and all its programmes), keep its users and install Ubuntu instead?

So my old fedora 28 has a core I do not like, and an old version I do not enjoy. Its update is not possible due to tons of errors. So how to remove Fedora and its core (and all its programmes), keep ...
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How to clone Ubuntu 18.04 LTS from HDD to SSD?

I have Ubuntu 18.04 LTS installed on a 1000 GB HDD /dev/sda (93% free space) on my laptop: /dev/sda1 -> 512M - vfat - EFI System Partition /dev/sda2 -> 732M - ext4 - Linux ...
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Migrate from Ubuntu to Debian and take the application data along

I am thinking of switching to Debian from Ubuntu, for various reasons, moving towards a more free software supporting system being one of them. (GNU.org mentions that we can choose to keep Debian ...
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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 ...
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Migrate Ubuntu to bigger HDD

I have a multi-boot system and want to push my Ubuntu installation to a bigger partition on the same hdd, because I want the system to have more memory available. What I know so far is I can clone ...
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Getting new server. How do I move everything over? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Moving linux install to a new computer I finally have my current server stable and running good though it is a bit slow (AMD 2400+ 2 GB RAM). I am running Ubuntu 11.4. I don'...
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Moving from Ubuntu 32bit: Mint 64bit or Mint 32bit?

I have decided to try out Linux Mint instead of the horrible Ubuntu Unity experince. I have a separate partition for my /home folder, which I'd like to preserve of course. So I'm curious: is it ...
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VirtualBox image from running VPS

I have an Ubuntu Server 10.04 VPS (Virtual Private Server) that hosts my website. I would like to clone this VPS and create a VirtualBox machine from it. How can I do this?
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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 ...
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