From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 24 16:32:14 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BD5B16A40F for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2006 16:32:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from james@pil.net) Received: from richard2.pil.net (mail.pil.net [207.7.198.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D737C43D9A for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2006 16:29:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from james@pil.net) Received: (qmail 94687 invoked by uid 1001); 24 Oct 2006 16:29:31 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 24 Oct 2006 16:29:31 -0000 Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 12:29:31 -0400 (EDT) From: James Smallacombe To: Eric In-Reply-To: <453E36F5.70102@mikestammer.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Copying binaries to new server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 16:32:14 -0000 On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Eric wrote: > James Smallacombe wrote: > > A couple of months ago, I spent a couple of weeks compiling and configuring > > the latest FBSD, apache, perl, qmail and the bazzilion modules, patches and > > addon apps that go with all of it on an existing server, and ironing out all > > the upgrade issues that entailed. > > > > Since then, due to apparent hardware problems with that server, I just put > > together a new server using new hardware. > > > > The old hardware was dual P-III, Adaptec SCSI RAID 1 > > > > The new hardware is single Xeon, LSI SAS RAID 1 > > > > Both running 6.2-Prerelease. > > > > Is there any reason I shouldn't just copy all of /usr and /var from the old > > server, or do I really need to compile everything anew and sort out any > > simlinks to other file systems? > > > > Please copy me directly, since I am no subscribed > > > > TIA! > > > > why not just a dump/restore of the file systems in question? That's what I'm asking...I just want to make sure that binaries compiled on a dual PIII wouldn't have stability issues running on a single Xeon...I know they're both I386, but am uncertain as to how system-specific binaries can be... James Smallacombe Internet Access for The Delaware james@pil.net Valley in PA, NJ and DE PlantageNet Internet Ltd. http://www.pil.net =========================================================================