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#Shutdown the server

#Shutdown the server

#Disconnect each internal hard drive one at a time ahd re-boot to make sure you can boot from either drive (at this point you have broken the raid, you will not be able to reboot with both drives and expect it to resume the raid without some manual intervention.

#Disconnect each internal hard drive one at a time ahd re-boot to make sure you can boot from either drive (at this point you have broken the raid, you will not be able to reboot with both drives and expect it to resume the raid without some manual intervention.

##Decide which drive to keep as a short term backup and only connect the other one

#Decide which drive to keep as a short term backup and only connect the other one

##Install SME8 on the remaining drive (probably from a CD). Make sure you give the server the same name as the old server   

#Install SME8 on the remaining drive (probably from a CD). Make sure you give the server the same name as the old server   

##Reboot  

#Reboot  

##Yum update to the latest version of the base system

#Yum update to the latest version of the base system

##signal-event post-upgrade and reboot

#signal-event post-upgrade and reboot

##Install the [[DAR2]] package on the SME8 system, if still on the Beta release you'll need to switch the contribs repo as per: [[SME8.0_Contribs_QA]]. Note that a reboot after you do switch the repo will switch it back to the SME8 one (which at this moment does not have any contribs in it, as they have not yet been released for SME8 (although a lot of them do work - see [[SME8.0_Contribs_QA]].

#Install the [[DAR2]] package on the SME8 system, if still on the Beta release you'll need to switch the contribs repo as per: [[SME8.0_Contribs_QA]]. Note that a reboot after you do switch the repo will switch it back to the SME8 one (which at this moment does not have any contribs in it, as they have not yet been released for SME8 (although a lot of them do work - see [[SME8.0_Contribs_QA]].

##Plug in the external USB Hard Drive and restore the dar2 database as per [[DAR2#Manual_restore_of_DAR2_configuration]]

#Plug in the external USB Hard Drive and restore the dar2 database as per [[DAR2#Manual_restore_of_DAR2_configuration]]

##Do a restore using the [[DAR2]] package panel in server-manager.

#Do a restore using the [[DAR2]] package panel in server-manager.

##The Server manager package says "success" when it means it thinks it might be running! Get into a terminal window and use tail -F /var/log/messages to monitor the activity.  It will leave a message in here when the restore is finished.

#The Server manager package says "success" when it means it thinks it might be running! Get into a terminal window and use tail -F /var/log/messages to monitor the activity.  It will leave a message in here when the restore is finished.

##When it has done, then do a  

#When it has done, then do a  

  signal-event post-upgrade  

  signal-event post-upgrade  

  signal-event reboot

  signal-event reboot

and check that the data is correct.

and check that the data is correct.