Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

[Sjoerd Hardeman <sjoerd@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl>]

Sven Joachim schreef:
> On 2009-09-16 13:46 +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote:
>
> > Robert P. J. Day schreef:
> > >   i've mentioned this before, but by the end of this week, i want to
> > > move my entire current (fully-updated) lenny install from an old
> > > 32-bit system to a new 64-bit dell server, and i'm open to advice on
> > > the easiest and most error-free way to do that.
> > >
> > >   i've already duplicated the software packages on the new server, so
> > > what's left is to transfer over the remainder of the configuration --
> > > mail server, web server, user accounts, etc.  the whole ball of wax.
> > >
> > >   since both systems have webmin, someone suggested doing a webmin
> > > backup on the old system, then just restoring it on the new one, which
> > > makes a certain amount of sense as long as webmin can be trusted to
> > > reproduce configuration info accurately.
> > Why not just copy /etc, /home, /root and /var, and make sure you do
> > not follw symlinks in copying. That should do.
>
> No, at least you need to leave out /var/lib/{dpkg,apt}.  And you have to
> be careful to preserve file ownership -- the uids and gids of system
> users and groups may differ.
Forgot about those, you're probably right. So the idea would then be to 
do an rsync -a or cp -p of /etc/, /home and /root, and in /var to at 
least copy /var/mail /var/spool, /var/log and /var/www, and carefully 
check what you need from /var/lib. Am I right?

Sjoerd

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