Difference between revisions of "UpgradeDisk"

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Revision as of 00:10, 1 July 2007

Hard drive restore requires a complete system. It is meant to take a hard drive from a system, mount it, and do a restore from it.

It does not restore contribs or manually added software, except if it's in an Ibay and instructs you to move custom-templates.

On the old SME server prior to shutting down do signal-event pre-backup then shutdown & remove the drive
On the new machine do a fresh install of sme7
Shut down & install old drive and start machine.
mkdir /mnt/tmp
mount /dev/hdb2 /mnt/tmp (adjust "hdb2" according to where the old drive is installed).
db configuration setprop backup Program CopyFromDisk status enabled
signal-event pre-restore
signal-event restore-tape /mnt/tmp (note: this step may take a long time depending on how much data is being restored
cd /etc/e-smith
mv templates-custom templates-custom.old
mkdir templates-custom
mv templates-user-custom templates-user-custom.old
mkdir templates-user-custom
signal-event post-upgrade
signal-event reboot
Shutdown and remove old drive

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 Hard drive restore requires a complete system.  It is meant to take a hard
 drive from a system, mount it, and do a restore from it.
+It does not restore contribs or manually added software, except if it's in an Ibay and instructs you to move custom-templates.
 Summarised from http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=30745.0