IPBrick Disk migration
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IPBrick Disk migration
This guide is to assist the IT IPBRICK administrator in the process of migrating a running IPBRICK installation from:
- scenario 1 : one disk to another disk on the same server machine
- scenario 2 : one disk to another disk on a different server machine
On the original server machine
On the original installation, apply configuration and save the configurations file to your Desktop.
Just stop the the services you use.
/etc/init.d/asterisk stop /etc/init.d/apache2 stop /etc/init.d/ejabberd stop /etc/init.d/qmail stop ...
Execute this command to backup all the data bases.
php5 /opt/system/backupSYS/backup_DBs.php
Scenario 1 - only one server machine
Procedure:
- shutdown the server machine
- remove/detach the original (old) disk from the server
- install/attach the replacement (new) disk
- install the IPBRICK.IC operating system (please refer to IPBRICK.IC installation manual)
- perform the first boot, proceed with initial setup (FQDN, IP)
- after finishing installation and initial configuration proceed to the next step
- with the server power on, connect the old (original) disk using a USB connector
- now at the command line you can check for the disks
fdisk -l
- confirm that you have 2 (two) disks: sda (new internal disk) and sdb (old disk connected via usb)
- you shoudl be able to identify the partition tables
- create two temporary folders to map/mount the work areas from the old disk
mkdir /old_home1 mkdir /old_home2 ls /old_home* -al
- Then we need to mount the partitions we need to copy.
mount /dev/sdb7 /old_home1 mount /dev/sdb8 /old_home2
- Now lets start the rsync
rsync -aAuv /old_home1 /home1 > /tmp/rsync_home1.log 2> /tmp/rsync_home1.err & rsync -aAuv /old_home2 /home2 > /tmp/rsync_home2.log 2> /tmp/rsync_home2.err &
- You can see the logs in these files (log is normal output, err is for status warning)
tail /tmp/rsync_home1.log tail /tmp/rsync_home1.err tail /tmp/rsync_home2.log tail /tmp/rsync_home2.err
- Wen the rsync is finish access to web interface and then insert and replace the configuration that you save on your desktop.
- After replacing, go to Advanced configuration -> disaster recovery -> aplication -> data bases -> and replace the last one.
- Wen this Finnish test the services you have on IPBrick.
Scenario 2 - rsync using 2 IPBrick==
Install the IPBrick on the new machine or on the new disk.
Make the rsync command to copy all the data to the new disk, Some examples of rsync
EX: IPBrick1 New (192.168.69.199) and IPBrick2 OLD (192.168.69.200)
On machine IPBrick2 open ssh to root
cat /etc/ssh/sshusers-allowed operator root
insert the line root on the file.
Now lets start the rsync on IPBrick1
rsync -avz --rsh="ssh -l root" 192.168.69.200:/home1 /home1 > rsync_home1.log 2> rsync_home1.err rsync -avz --rsh="ssh -l root" 192.168.69.200:/home2 /home2 > rsync_home2.log 2> rsync_home2.err
- the route password will be prompt to insert.
You can see the logs in this file -> rsync_home1.log Or the errors in this file -> rsync_home1.err
Wen the rsync is finish access to web interface and then insert and replace the configuration that you save on your desktop.
After replacing, go to Advanced configuration -> disaster recovery -> aplication -> data bases -> and replace the last one.
Wen this Finnish test the services you have on IPBrick.
