Questions tagged [migration]
Migrating an installation to new hardware. See also /cloning
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Upgrading openSUSE Leap 15.6 to 16: all kinds of D-Bus errors after completion and reboot
To upgrade from openSUSE Leap 15.6 to Leap 16 I installed this tool and then used it:
zypper in opensuse-migration-tool
But after complettion and reboot, I cannot login. When I enter my password, the ...
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Adding a New Server to Existing Proxmox Cluster - Network Configuration and VM Communication
I’m looking for some guidance on expanding my Proxmox setup. Here’s my current setup and what I’m trying to achieve:
Current Setup
I have a dedicated OVH server running Proxmox.
On this server, I ...
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Failing to upgrade Oracle Linux 7.9 to 8.10 via leapp
Leapp upgrade of Oracle Linux 7.9 to 8.10 fails and drops in emergency mode. This happens when I select EL8 kernel in grub menu. System seems to be working normally with EL7 kernel. Systems are ...
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How to migrate my encrypted passwords to my new laptop
I'm using pass to store my password. Passwords are stored in ~/.password-store. This has been working for 10 years, but now I have a new laptop. I'm trying to migrate the passwords by copying what I ...
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ZFS: Best Practices for Restructuring multiple pools with encrypted datasets at once
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So I currently have a convoluted ZFS setup and want to restructure it, reusing some of the existing hardware.
I know that the recommended way of doing something like this is to ...
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Unmount root from /boot partition? trying to fstransform /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root
I am trying to transform /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root from xfs to ext4 using fstransform on my CentOS 7 VM. This is needed for a migration from another Centos 7 VM. The issue I am facing is the root ...
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Migration of a working Debian 11 system to another
Assume I have two Debian 11 systems. System A with custom application setup. etc. And a vanilla system B. Now I would like to transfer the whole setup from A to B. I found some links, where users ...
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How to clone / move entire Fedora installation onto larger disk with minimal changes to the system?
Scenario
I have an SSD in my computer (250GiB), with both /boot and ///home partitions on it.
I'd like to move that into a new M.2 NVME drive which is much larger (1TiB).
The distro I'm using is ...
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How to backup VM from bhyve and migrate it to KVM?
I am stuck here and can not find information about migrating Windows and Linux/Unix vm's to KVM. Doing it with zfs is inefficient, because it will transfer the whole disk space, which can be more than ...
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Port 22 closed after migrating users
I have 2 AWS EC2 instances with RHEL 6 and 8 respectively. I followed this procedure to migrate all the users from the oldest server to the new one. In the process I had to delete some lines from all ...
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Mounting Entire Container into a Directory
I am trying to mount my entire docker debian container into /home/admin/main directory of my vps as a backup and migration solution but I get an error.
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sudo docker run -ditv /home/admin/...
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Is this a safe way to migrate my data to a new computer?
I recently bought a new laptop and I would like to migrate to it with as little hassle as possible. I don't want to do a fresh install since I have made various tweaks to my current setup for things ...
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Categorizing Debian Linux VPS
I like to Categorize or Divide one Debian VPS for different Tasks and Testing.
For Example two Apache Web Servers with no any connection between both. Something like installing apache2 web server only ...
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Migrating away from apt-key adv
I have quite some scripts that are still using the apt-key adv command. And I know this command is deprecated. And soon becoming unable to use.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Debian 11 is the last ...
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Migrating user IMAP files/data to another hard drive/server
Due to a machine crash, I need to move my mail server to another host. This includes user IMAP, but as the old server is not accessible I can't just drag and drop in an imap client application like ...
