From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 24 02:50:10 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D55D5106566C for ; Sun, 24 Jan 2010 02:50:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from oceanare@pacific.net.sg) Received: from nomoremozzie.com (nomoremozzie.com [67.212.226.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A02D68FC0C for ; Sun, 24 Jan 2010 02:50:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.110] ([112.199.149.42]) (authenticated bits=0) by nomoremozzie.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id o0O2o7lX025396; Sat, 23 Jan 2010 19:50:09 -0700 From: Erich Dollansky To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 10:49:50 +0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <20100122111219.A31898@starfire.mn.org> <201001231015.22934.oceanare@pacific.net.sg> <20100123161934.GA27277@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20100123161934.GA27277@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <201001241049.54312.oceanare@pacific.net.sg> Cc: Jerry McAllister , John Subject: Re: Migration planning - old system to new 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: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 02:50:10 -0000 Hi, On 24 January 2010 am 00:19:34 Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 10:15:19AM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > On 23 January 2010 am 01:12:19 John wrote: > > > 1) Create a "migrate" account in Wheel with home as > > > /var/migrate so that I can do a dump/restore on "home" > > > without messing things up > > > > Are you sure? Use /usr to make sure you will have enough > > space. > > You are making the rash and probably incorrect assumption that > /usr is the largest partition/filesystem. Many people, > including I, make /home or another partition be the large one. > The OP may also have done that. so true. > > > It might be easier for you to run both machines and move > > first the simple things over. > > > > > 7) Nuke /home and /var/mail and migrate them again to get > > > the latest version 8) Do the real switch > > Move/migrate them first. Don't make assumptions about what the > OP has on /home. This was written by him not me. > > But, I agree, if possible, use a second machine with V 8.0 > installed and migrate to it. > > Otherwise, make full backups, check them for readability. Then > do a new install of FreeBSD V8. Add a large disk and pull > stuff out of your dump to it and then migrate that stuff piece > by piece back to the machine main filesystems. It sounds to me that his main problem is that it is a life system and he wants to avoid down-time. Not this easy. > Erich