Is there a way to migrate from one server to a new one?

[xclanet]

i've been searching the forum for a how-to or something else to do a migration from one ispcp to another.
The point: I have a box with an ispcp installed (RC2) and i have purchased a new server because this one is becoming to old and it has been working on low resources.
What i want to do is install the latest ispcp and after that copy all the content (web, databases, mail, etc...) from the old server to the new one.

Is there a easy way or a to-do for this kind of job?

Cheers!

[FeG]

Hi xclanet,

we had some threads about this in the forum before..
I've myself done a server migration half a year ago - rsync is your friend..

But I'd recommend you to use the same ispCP version on both servers, because i.e. the database structure has been changed. You should first migrate to the same version, thus RC2, and then upgrade to the newest version on the new server.

Greetings
FeG

[xclanet]

Thx for the reply, im not familiar with rsync. Can you post a step-by-step?

cheers.

[FeG]

xclanet Wrote:Can you post a step-by-step?

It's a good thing that I've documented my migration.. and I did it with dokuwiki, so it was easy-going to write an ispcp howto

HowTo: Migrate from one to another ispCP server

Try this and report any missing points I've maybe forgotten...

Greetings
FeG

[xclanet]

thx, i will do it step by step and report any issue if i found one.

Cheers.

[xclanet]

Ok... i have installed a newly fresh debian etch netinstall...

Now the big question: How can i install the same version of ispcp on the new server? i have "ispCP 1.0rc2 OMEGA build: 2007-04-18 Priamos" on the old.

[joximu]

I'd update on the old one and then migrate to the new.

[xclanet]

joximu Wrote:I'd update on the old one and then migrate to the new.

I don't want to do that operation on the old because he is working ok and i don't want to break it! If something goes wrong i don't have to worry about a hundred of domains being off-line. That's because i want to do all the changes on the new one.

[FeG]

Hi,

xclanet Wrote:I don't want to do that operation on the old because he is working ok and i don't want to break it! If something goes wrong i don't have to worry about a hundred of domains being off-line. That's because i want to do all the changes on the new one.

I think I've made a fault while remembering my rsync-copy... if I'm right now, the rsync commands does already copy your existent ispcp-installation on your old server, you don't have to install ispcp on the new server before running rsync.

Hope that helps..

Greetings
FeG

[xclanet]

Ty, i will try that tonight and report if it worked ok!