Due to various reasons, I’ve had to move the VPS that hosts my website and other things two different times now, and I’ve compiled a basic list of things you need to do to create a complete copy of the old server to the new one.
When you perform these steps, the it would be best to disable as many services as you can on the old server (so that some services doesn’t write a new file while you’re copying things over).
This is, of course a basic list of things to do, but it has done me good thusfar. There will be a few times where you may have to “go it on your own” (looking at KERNCONFs, here), but you should be able to figure that out yourself using Online Documentation.
Here we go! All these steps are stated as though you’re performing this on server 2, which is the one you’re moving to, unless noted otherwise.
#Install rsync portsnap fetch portsnap extract cd /usr/ports/net/rsync make install clean #Copy users and groups over scp -r root@server.one:/usr/home/* /usr/home/ scp root@server.one:/etc/passwd /etc/ scp root@server.one:/etc/group /etc/ scp root@server.one:/etc/master.passwd /etc/ #Copy /etc , /usr, /root, /var to new server rsync -vrplogDtH root@server.one:/var/db/ /var/db rsync -vrplogDtH --exclude 'bin' --exclude 'lib' --exclude 'lib32' --exclude 'libexec' root@server.one:/usr/ /usr rsync -vrplogDtH root@server.one:/root/ /root pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd #Update Kernel -> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/makeworld.html csup /root/supfile ###check /usr/src/UPDATING ###check /etc/make.conf #Update files in /etc cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/mergemaster ./mergemaster.sh -p #Drop to single-user mode shutdown now #From here, you should be able to hit enter to get a /bin/sh in recovery mode fsck -p mount -u / mount -a -t ufs swapon -a adjkerntz -i #If hw clock is set to local time. `date` will show incorrect time and zone #remove files from /usr/obj cd /usr/obj chflags -R noschg * rm -rf * #Save compile output script /var/tmp/build.log #Compile base system cd /usr/src make -j6 buildworld #compile kernel -- You should create your own KERNCONF here, or use GENERIC make buildkernel KERNCONF=GALLY make installkernel KERNCONF=GALLY #Reboot the machine into single-user mode and ensure kernel works shutdown -r now ### Option 4 at the FreeBSD boot loader ### Remount drives fsck -p mount -u / mount -a -t ufs swapon -a #Install new system binaries if kernel is working correctly. cd /usr/src make installworld #Run mergemaster again /usr/sbin/mergemaster #New kernel and world are now installed. Reboot into your new system shutdown -h now #Re-install ports portmaster --list-origins > /root/installed-port-list ## Perform this step on server 1 scp root@server.one:/root/installed-port-list /root/ portsnap fetch update portmaster -y --clean-distfiles portmaster --check-port-dbdir portmaster -Faf pkg_delete '*' rm -rf /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg #check /usr/local to make sure that only config files, etc are still installed rm -rf /var/db/pkg #install portmaster again cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmaster && make install clean portmaster -D --update-if-newer `cat /root/installed-port-list` ### Do minor manual configurating. |