Machine Migration ..

[hboo]

Hi all

I want to migrate a machine, an K380 to an L1000, I want to know what I have to do?

Inicially I'm going to install SO in L100 machine, after, I will copy disks and file systems structure.. and then recovery all information through Dataprotector

Somebody has any comments ¿? ...

[IT_2007]

what OS are you running on K380? HP-UX 11.0 or 11i?

Once you install OS on L1000 then copy /etc/passwd, /etc/group and /tcb directory if at all if you are using trusted system.

You method will work for other data volumes.

[Jaime Bolanos Rojas.]

Hayse,

Looks fine to me, one thing, make sure hard drive are the same size than k380 machine.

Regards,

Jaime.

[Pete Randall]

This is a relatively straightforward process. First, install the operating system in the L1000. Then, make any configuration file changes necessary to make your environment match up with the K380. Finally, if your data is on external storage like a RAID device, you can vgexport the Volume Groups from the K380 and vgimport them onto the L1000.


Pete

[hboo]

Hi...

The OS of K380 is 11.0 and I'm going to install 11.11.

Pete: what you want to say with:
" ...make any configuration file changes necessary to make your environment match up with the K380 ..."

The disk are not in external storage :(

[Geoff Wild]

Well - just to be clear - one doesn't migrate a machine. You can migrate an application, or a machine name, or some functionality.

That said, is your intent to replace the K380 with a L1000?

Things to think about - are you changing the version of the O/S?

What kind of application are you moving?

Also, as far as restoring - don't restore system binaries - you could toast your server - as the hardware is quite different...

Rgds...Geoff

[hboo]

Hi Geoff

Thanks for terms clarify...my intention is replace an K380 by an L1000

The OS: I'll change OS version (from 11.0 to 11.11)

The applications: some oracle bd instances and one sybase bd instance

Thanks for binaries recommendation

[Bill Hassell]

After you INSTALL 11.11 , do *NOT* restore any OS files (especially /etc /dev /usr /opt /stand /var) from your backup. The OS binary files will not be compatible and you don't want to replace the new libraries (/usr/lib) or anything in /dev. And since Oracle and Sybase may need new binaries, only restore the data directories after installing the database code. That leaves /home as the only other portable directory.