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Operating Systems Solaris Key Points when Moving from Server A to Server B?? Post 302605704 by smckech1972 on Thursday 8th of March 2012 09:23:09 AM

03-08-2012

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Key Points when Moving from Server A to Server B??

Hi Everyone,

I'm still learning daily about UNIX (specifically Solaris 10).

I'm tasked with moving my current application and database from Datacenter A to Datacenter B.

There will be no updates and no changes other than a new server and new location.

So far, I have Solaris installed and patched on the target to equal the patch level of the source.

My question is, what are key files or directories I should directly copy (or perhaps rsync) to do this as smooth as possible?

I will probably be frowned upon for this, but it may help explain my question a bit better.

So if this was Windows XP (for example) and I was giving someone a new pc. The OS would be installed and patched. Then the key folders I'd need to be sure to copy would be basically the user profile, favorites, mydocs, etc. I'm looking for a similar answer but in Unix terms.

I know right now the .profiles are not there and that is definatley one thing.

Can anyone maybe give me direction or a handy dandy guide "when moving to a new box...."?

Thanks for your time.

smckech1972

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LUCKYBACKUP(8)						      System Manager's Manual						    LUCKYBACKUP(8)

NAME

       luckybackup - a powerful, fast and reliable backup & sync tool

SYNOPSIS

       luckybackup [OPTIONS]... [FILE]...

DESCRIPTION

       luckybackup is an application that backs-up and/or synchronizes any directories with the power of rsync

OPTIONS

	--help
	    displays this help message
	--version
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	--skip-critical
	    does not execute tasks that appear with a 'CRITICAL' warning message
	--dry-run
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	-c
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	--no-questions
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	[FILE]
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	 examples
       1. Execute luckybackup gui :
       $ luckybackup
       2. Execute luckybackup in silent mode for profile '~/.luckyBackup/profiles/BackupHome.profile' :
       $ luckybackup --silent ~/.luckyBackup/profiles/BackupHome.profile

       3. Execute luckybackup in console mode for profile '~/.luckyBackup/profiles/BackupHome.profile' :
       $ luckybackup -c BackupHome.profile
       4. Execute luckybackup in console mode for profile '~/.luckyBackup/profiles/BackupHome.profile'
       Do not ask any questions and skip all operations that appear CRITICAL after the checks :
       $ luckybackup --skip-critical --no-questions ~/.luckyBackup/profiles/BackupHome.profile

SEE ALSO

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AUTHOR

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