Migrate / Restore Fedora on different hardware

[Sam Varshavchik]

Roland Venter writes:

> Has anyone succeeded in migrating Fedora / RH onto a different hardware 
> platform?
> 
> Scenario:
> If got a full tar backup of an existing running server.  I want to restore a 
> working version on another box, but with diferent hardware (RAID, NIC's, 
> etc). Restoring the user data is easy.  I need to know what files not to 
> overwrite during the restore after a minimal install on the new box.
> 
> I've identified some files needed:
> /boot/grub/grub.conf
> /boot/grub/device.map
> /etc/sysconfig/rawdevices
> /etc/sysconfig/hwconf
> /etc/sysconfig/grub
> 
> 
> Any got suggestions or links?

Restore everything, except for the boot loader (grub & friends).

When you reboot, let kudzu, and friends, fix everything up.

The only time it's not that easy is when you're moving on/off a SCSI boot 
drive, or any other boot environment that needs its own, custom, initrd.


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