Migrating to a newer version of FreeBSD
Lisa Casey
lisa at jellico.com
Fri May 13 14:04:30 PDT 2005
Hi Folks,
I have had a Redhat box that was running my radius authentication and
sendmail. Several weeks ago the hard drive in this box crashed. Naturally
:-( I didn't have a backup. This created an emergency - my users could not
get authenticated and could not get email. I didn't have time to solve this
problem nicely, so this is what I did.
I had another computer that I had installed FreeBSD 4.6 on some time ago but
wasn't using for anything. So I hastily installed a radius server, sendmail
and qpopper on it. Fortunately I had a copy of my radius users file, but we
had to recreate all of the users on the box for mail.
Right now my problems are:
1) The version of FreeBSD is just too old. The ports are old and I just
cannot seem to just download newer ports and install them.
2) The hard drive on this box is too small. I never intended to use it as a
mail server wehen I set it up, so my var is just way too small.
I have a new large hard drive I purchased. I intended to install this drive
as a slave drive in this box and copy everything over to it using dump &
restore following the procedure at:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NEW-HUGE-DISK
I need to think about this and do it right this time. Doing things in a
hurry on an emergency basis just causes grief. I don't want to keep the
FreeBSD 4.6 for obvious reasons. I'm pretty sure I cannot install a 5
version of FreeBSD on the new drive then dump/restore things over to it.
So here's what I was thinking about doing I just ordered a copy of FreeBSD
5.3 I can install the 5.3 on the new drive and get radius authentication
working on that one quickly and easily. The email is going to be more of a
problem since users currently have mail in their mail boxes on the 4.6 box
and, of course, new mail comes in all the time. I can go ahead and get
Sendmail and Qpopper set up on this new 5.3 box. What do you think will be
the best way to migrate the mailboxes over to it so as to cause our users as
little grief as possible? Since that old redhat drive crashed our users have
experienced a fair amount of problems and I'ld like to minimize that as much
as I can on this new transition.
Thanks,
Lisa Casey
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