From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 11 15:12:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.utexas.edu (wb3-a.mail.utexas.edu [128.83.126.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CC20C37B6A4 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 15:12:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 27046 invoked by uid 0); 11 Jan 2001 23:12:02 -0000 Received: from chepe.cc.utexas.edu (HELO chepe.mail.utexas.edu) (128.83.135.25) by umbs-smtp-3 with SMTP; 11 Jan 2001 23:12:02 -0000 Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010111170817.00af9590@mail.utexas.edu> X-Sender: oscars@mail.utexas.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 17:11:06 -0600 To: questions@freebsd.org From: Oscar Ricardo Silva Subject: What are some ways to move one system to new hardware? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've got some FreeBSD 4.x and some Linux systems running. We've received new computers and I've been asked to move the existing systems to the new hardware. Some of these are just file servers, others directory servers, and some just being used for mail. I've been backing them up using Amanda 2.4.2 and have been able to restore files here and there. It's been suggested that I could restore an entire system to the new hardware but I'm unsure how to begin. Can anybody suggest some ways of moving the existing systems to the new hardware? I've thought about just copying the contents of the drives, but the less the downtime the better. Thanks, Oscar To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message