[Spacewalk-list] Migrate from physical server to VM...any gotchas?

Jan Hutař jhutar at redhat.com
Fri Jun 15 11:05:56 UTC 2012


On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 14:08:46 -0500 Sean Carolan
<scarolan at gmail.com> wrote:

> We are planning to move our spacewalk installation from a
> physical server onto a VMware guest.  The primary reasons for
> doing this are portability and snapshots.
> 
> Has anyone else moved a Spacewalk installation from one server
> to another?  Any gotchas or things to look out for?  Also if
> you have any documentation about moving an existing
> installation, please let me know.  Our Spacewalk version is
> 1.7, and we're using PostgreSQL for the DB backend.  Both are
> running on the same host.

Hello,
you might find this useful:

https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/SpacewalkHostnameRename

For transfering actual data, you can use this list (make sure
not to mess with permissions and when you are restoring on a
target system use restorecon -vr <dirs> to fix issues with
SELinux context):

https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/SpacewalkBackup#Directories

And also you need to move your DB, but do not know if there is
something else needed besides:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/backup.html

Others will help here.

Regards,
Jan



-- 
Jan Hutar     Systems Management QA
jhutar at redhat.com     Red Hat, Inc.
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