I´m really far away from my old servers: 3.500km at least!
Now I´ve to plan a migration from SME9 to SME10.
Some clients are going to buy a new server = no problem, install SME10 on them, copy data over network using RSYNC (easy!)
Some cliente are reusing same hardware, so I think abou to start using SSD (even a 128GB is enought to SME!).
What I think about to ask to junior guy on site:
1) shutdown server, disconnect 2x 2TB spin drives, install new SSD256, boot server
2) install SME10 on new SSD256 and test/configure/update
3) shutdown server, install old 2x 2TB spin drives, boot server
4) mount old data disk as /home/e-smith/files to have minimal problems (3.500km AWAY)
I see some problems:
1) on boot, I´m not sure hardware will choose to boot from NEW SSD drive, neither I know how to avoid it to boot from old SME9 partitions (besides to remove/delete them! SCARRY @ 3.500km away!!)
2) after finished (if it works!) I´ll have a old SME9 OS data/partition on my now DATA disks... I´d like to remove them but not sure how to do it! (I´m talking about to remove original /boot partition and other things besides data)
3) not sure if this would be wise or best way to do it.
I´ll be onsite on may (vacancy!!) so I can use one day to do this, but no more than that... and some servers are full with 1TB (on RAID1 of 2x 2TB disks) of data, I cannot afford spare time to copy that beside the affa backup I´ve on spare server (different hardware) on same LAN.
Any toughts ?? Regards !