Topic: I need to combine 2 e-smith machines

[Tim Litwiller]

Currently we have 2 e-smiths running and would like to combine everything onto 1 new very much faster machine,  Does any one have expierence with the restore procedure,  especially would a restore backup of each of the older machines to the same new machine?  Should this work?  I haven't had time to test yet, but will probably next monday.


Thanks

[Chris O'Donovan]

I'd say that you should do a restore from one of the machines on to the new machine, then create any ibays/users which existed on the second machine on the new machine, and, finally, copy over those files (using tar and scp) from the second machine.

By doing the copy last you should be able retain all file permissions from the second machine.

Chris

[Graeme Robinson]

Do the restore which is closest to having all the groups, users and other configuration as you want on your new server.  Once you have the restored server up and running you can restore the ibay and user data from the second server from tape backup to the appropriate directories using flexbackup from the commandline (see the user contributed HOWTOS).  If you don't have tape for both you can use SCP to copy the data across the network (slower).

[Tim Litwiller]

Thanks for the suggestions !