Topic: hardware update

[Robbie]

I wonder if anyone has had experience of doing the following.

I was midway through replacing some hardware on my main machines and I backed up almost everything to my SME server v6b3 developer version.
were talking approx 80Gb of data.

Needles to say the nasty hardware gods were waiting for this point to have my motherboard of my server die on me.

Has anyone changed major hardware like a Mb on a SME server - reapplied the last update and have it survive the process?

I'm talking changing base Mb chipset version on the server - more than likely network card as well..

Is it at all feasable?

robbie

[PC]

If you are certain that it was only your motherboard that died.........

The data on the harddrives is probably toast, but as long as you have a current backup of the SME server......you do have a backup don't you?

[Robbie]

Yes I have a system backup of the last time I did any rpm updates, its wither sme is robust enough not to change anything if I do an update if I just move the disks to another box.

Older athlon Mb with a max processor of 1.4Ghz to a new nforce job with everything built in.

I have a multi disk setup as I use my sme to stream media along my local network and have 2x160Gb of media and 1 80Gb with user directories on it.

[jay]

Hi,

In the past I've succesfully upgraded my [5.6] server hardware from a Dell Optiplex GS [Pentium 2 pizz-box thingy] ]to a P3 Soyo based home build to an Athlon based home build.

Neadless to say the chipset's on all 3 were different and the only change required was to reconfigure the NIC's.

Cheers
Jay

[Alexander Ziemann]

I had serveral server -> server updates/upgrades with very different hardware. MB was no problem at all even with onboard NICs and ide-controllers.

Only the NIC configuration has to be rebuild via admin->configuration panel.

az

[Arne]

Have changed the harddisc with the installation over to a new pc some number of times. Normally it works well. But I have also eperienced that the whole intallation crached completely, when tranfering to a pc with onboard graphic adapter. None of these transfers involved much datas.