Questions tagged [migration]
Migrating an installation to new hardware. See also /cloning
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mail server migration tools
We have zimbra as mail server with an old ubuntu in our company.
I decided to install a clean Debian or FreeBSD with a Postfix+Dovecot and other needed tools such as OpenDKIM and other tools.
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How to clone / move entire Fedora installation onto larger disk with minimal changes to the system?
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I have an SSD in my computer (250GiB), with both /boot and ///home partitions on it.
I'd like to move that into a new M.2 NVME drive which is much larger (1TiB).
The distro I'm using is ...
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Migrate from thunderbird to sylpheed while preserving folder structure
Is there an automatic way migrate a thunderbird mailbox to sylpheed while preserving the folder structure. I tried the importexport extension for thunderbird and got a directory with multiple mbox ...
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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 a 8GB account, didn't work, ...
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How to migrate my encrypted passwords to my new laptop
I'm using pass to store my password. Passwords are stored in ~/.password-store. This has been working for 10 years, but now I have a new laptop. I'm trying to migrate the passwords by copying what I ...
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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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ZFS: Best Practices for Restructuring multiple pools with encrypted datasets at once
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So I currently have a convoluted ZFS setup and want to restructure it, reusing some of the existing hardware.
I know that the recommended way of doing something like this is to ...
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Unmount root from /boot partition? trying to fstransform /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root
I am trying to transform /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root from xfs to ext4 using fstransform on my CentOS 7 VM. This is needed for a migration from another Centos 7 VM. The issue I am facing is the root ...
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How to Upgrade CentOS 7.x to RHEL 8.x by disconnected method or without subscription and how? [closed]
I have a CentOS distribution and I want to migrate/ Upgrade it in RHEL 7 but I don't have a subscription so, it can be possible to migrate it without subscription.
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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 ...
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How to backup VM from bhyve and migrate it to KVM?
I am stuck here and can not find information about migrating Windows and Linux/Unix vm's to KVM. Doing it with zfs is inefficient, because it will transfer the whole disk space, which can be more than ...
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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 ...
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Port 22 closed after migrating users
I have 2 AWS EC2 instances with RHEL 6 and 8 respectively. I followed this procedure to migrate all the users from the oldest server to the new one. In the process I had to delete some lines from all ...
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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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Is this a safe way to migrate my data to a new computer?
I recently bought a new laptop and I would like to migrate to it with as little hassle as possible. I don't want to do a fresh install since I have made various tweaks to my current setup for things ...
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