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With this method you should be able to move a typical 50 Gbyte sized server to new hardware with downtime less than 20 minutes. The final sync and the rise time does not really depend on the total files size, but on the number of files and directories.

With this method you should be able to move a typical 50 Gbyte sized server to new hardware with downtime less than 20 minutes. The final sync and the rise time does not really depend on the total files size, but on the number of files and directories.

==== SME 6 Server ====

==== SME 6 Server ====

Although Affa was designed for SME 7, you can move a SME 6 server to a hardware with SME 7 installed. But there are few restrictions:

Although Affa was designed for SME 7, you can move a SME 6 server to a hardware with SME 7 installed. But there are a few restrictions:

* You cannot yum update the SME 6

* You cannot yum update the SME 6

* You cannot use the RPM comparision, as SME 6 hasn't yum installed and all packages would differ anyway. Skip <code>db affa setprop prodserv RPMCheck yes</code>

* You cannot use the RPM comparision, as SME 6 hasn't yum installed and all packages would differ anyway. Skip <code>db affa setprop prodserv RPMCheck yes</code>