On Sat, Sep 28, 2024 at 2:02 PM George N. White III <gnwiii@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 27, 2024 at 8:07 PM Jeffrey Walton <noloader@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Hi Everyone, >> >> 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. > > Legacy filesystems may not be the best option for an SSD -- a fresh > install using btrfs may be beneficial. Yeah, I agree. I am abandoning those plans. >> 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? > > Without understanding key issues: > > 1) How expensive is downtime when you have to replace the SSD and > restore backups? Nothing to worry about. I don't care about the five-9's. I care about something easy and reliable. If the webserver is down for three hours, then so be it. > 2) How complex is the software configuration? Does it rely on older versions > and/or lots of 3rd party packages making configuration a lengthy task? No. Everything is stock Fedora. > 3) Is the data mostly static or is there lots of churn? Mostly static. Jeff -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
