[SunRescue] Swapping a system between boxes

[Ken Hansen]

Well, why not unload and restore your *backups* on to the SS/20?

You *do* have backups, right?

Maybe try the reverse, install your OS of choice on the target machien, then
swap the drives into your production machine? You'll be able to test the
concept, without killing your data.

Could you set the two machines up in parallel, and copy over the drive
*contents* without removing the drives from your production machine. I
certainly hope you have sufficient HD space for the second machine to clone
th eprimary machine.

BTW, HiTechCafe has 9 gig IBM drives (made for SGI, refurbished) SCA, 1" for
$50 - see
http://www.hitechcafe.com/eshop/product2.asp?dept%5Fid=7&sku=DGHS%2D09Y

Enjoy,

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "Devin L. Ganger" <devin at thecabal.org>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 5:55 PM
Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Swapping a system between boxes


> On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 09:14:27AM -0400, Gil Young wrote:
>
> > I tried this once between a SS5 and an Ultra1/170, and I think if I kept
at
> > it I could get it to work, but time and work needs came into my way so I
> > opted for another solution :).  Albeit this swap corssed platforms (from
S5
> > to U1), you may have better luck.
>
> Enh.  "Better luck" isn't much what I want to hear. :)
>
> > Please do try and let us know how it goes!
>
> I'd love to, but I can't really afford to lose the working system.  I
> have 5 domains on it currently, plus all my email for myself and my
> wife...
>
> --
> Devin L. Ganger <devin at thecabal.org>
> find / -name *base* -exec chown us:us {} \;
> su -c someone 'export UP_US=thebomb'
> for f in great justice ; do sed -e 's/zig//g' < $f ; done
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