Topic: [How-to updated] Upgrading disk question: are template steps still required?

[christian]

I'm about to upgrade my server which has new hardware and new hard drives. I have already installed SME on the new hardware and am preparing to use the UpgradeDisk HowTo (which I have used before) in order to transfer the data from the old disks to the new ones.
http://wiki.contribs.org/UpgradeDisk

In this How To are the following steps:

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mv templates-custom templates-custom.old
mkdir templates-custom
mv templates-user-custom templates-user-custom.old
mkdir templates-user-custom

My recollection was that was required originally because we defined those steps when we were upgrading from 6.x to 7.0. And at that time, the template directories I believe had changed.

In this case I am simply going from 7.3 to 7.3 (all updates applied to both) so I don't believe it is necessary to perform these steps and in fact I will likely have to go back and re-modify the custom templates if I perform the indicated steps.

Is my assumption correct? Should I in fact skip those steps in the above scenario.
If so, I will go ahead and test it out and if I see no problems I will update the wiki accordingly.

Thanks for any input.

Christian

[janet]

christian

> Is my assumption correct? Should I in fact skip those steps in the above scenario.

Yes


> If so, I will go ahead and test it out and if I see no problems I will update the wiki accordingly.

Those steps are still applicable to upgrades from sme6.x


You may be better off using this:

http://wiki.contribs.org/Raid#Upgrading_the_Hard_Drive_Size

[christian]

> If so, I will go ahead and test it out and if I see no problems I will update the wiki accordingly.

Those steps are still applicable to upgrades from sme6.x

Understood and the changes will be to clarify this case.

You may be better off using this:

http://wiki.contribs.org/Raid#Upgrading_the_Hard_Drive_Size

I had considered that but the new motherboard changes the IDE locations as it is primarily SATA with an additional JMICRON IDE channel. I wasn't able to get the old IDE drives to boot on the new board (kernel panic) and tried a few things with initrd to get it going. I could see it becoming a time sink where as I am familiar with the disk restore method. Plus it gives me an opportunity to clean things up a bit.

Thanks for your input!

Christian

[christian]

I've updated the How-to now to hopefully make it easier for others to understand. I have created a section for 6.x to 7.x and 7.x to 7.x. I've tested both procedures.