Topic: Darrell May's Backup to WS on SME 6

[alienjones]

Can anyone confirm that this application will work on SME 6 please? Alternatively, can some provide a how-to about preparing my server for a hardware upgrade?
I'm about to upgrade my server to a dual CPU system. The mainboard runs a different chipset and will use SCSI drives or at least an ATA Raid system instead of the existing ATA drive.

Thanks in advance...
This is the problem with trying something cheaply and finding it works so well, It would have been better to do it properly in the first place!

[raem]

> Can anyone confirm that this application will work > on SME 6 please?

See Darrells forums
http://myezserver.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=538

It is still BETA use at your own risk. I have installed and am running it, have not found any problems as yet. You don't have too much choice unfortunately, as the earlier version of backup2ws DOES NOT not work correctly on sme v6.0.

> Alternatively, can some provide a how-to about
> preparing my server for a hardware upgrade?
> I'm about to upgrade my server to a dual CPU
> system. The mainboard runs a different chipset...

If you were keeping your existing drives and putting them in a new motherboard and box, you could just run the upgrade from the CD, this will detect the new hardware.

> and will use SCSI drives or at least an ATA Raid
> system instead of the existing ATA drive.

A new RAID drive system requires a fresh clean instal of the OS, and then you restore from a backup, or alternatively reconfigure from scratch.

Generally in this instance, you would create a backup on the old system (using backup2ws or tape), build the new system and restore the backup. You will have to reinstall any add on rpms that you had  installed on the old system.

Best that you do a test first before trashing the old system, you can fall back to the old system if it all goes wrong.

Hope the above helps.
Regs
Ray