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Renaming WebSphere after disk cloning [closed]
I know it is not the correct ways, but since keeping other installed stuffs is needed. Does anyone have the steps of renaming a WebSphere Server after cloning at disk level ?
Any help are welcome.
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rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred
I'm trying to move my emails Maildir from an old centos server to a new debian server.
rsync -avz /home/me/Maildir ssh root@ipaddress:/var/vmail/me/Maildir
I tried to copy an 8gb account, didn't ...
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Move a Whole Ubuntu Server [duplicate]
I have a machine with Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS 64 Bits installed on a LVM except for the boot partition
the current settings is
/dev/sda1 /boot 1GB
/dev/sda2 lvm
on LVM
/dev/lvm/root 45GB
/dev/lvm/swap ...
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Installing ksh as the standard shell in Redhat: Foolhardy?
I'm not a system administrator, but my organization is considering replacing /bin/sh in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6+ with a hard link to /bin/ksh. How foolhardy would this be?
The background to this ...
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Migrating from archlinux to gentoo
Is there an easy way to migrate from archlinux to gentoo? For example I get a list of manually installed packages in archlinux by pacman -Qeq, save it to file and edit (to delete all unneeded ...
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Xen: Migrating LVM-based machines from Xen Opensource to Xen Cloud Platform
we have several LVM-based VMs running on a Xen Opensource host. "LVM-based", in our case, means that there's a LVM volume for the root partition and another volume for the swap partition. The kernel ...
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How to get comfortable in linux as an ex-windows user? [closed]
I've been using linux full time for about 8 years. Now and then I help someone else migrate from windows to linux. Because I don't often use windows, I often find myself forgetting some of the ...
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How to copy settings from one machine to another?
I would like to copy my "settings" from my desktop to my laptop. I am running KDE on Arch. I am not sure what to do with ~/.config, ~/.local, and ~/.kde4 since they have subdirectories with names that ...
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Best way to migrate a mail server?
I have a Plesk panel mail server with used hard disk space of 480GB out of a total of 900GB. I would like to migrate the plesk panel and data to a new server on raid 1 hard drives(600GB). The mail ...
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What factors contribute to the expense of migrating to Linux? [closed]
People have various reasons(... and more reasons) to use Linux:
Freedom
Reliability
Stability
Security
Commercial support
But the question of cost is usually put aside, although Linux ...
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Migrate from thunderbird to sylpheed while preserving folder structure
Is there an automatic way migrate a thunderbird mailbox to sylpheed while preserving the folder structure. I tried the importexport extension for thunderbird and got a directory with multiple mbox ...
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Migrating a Virtualbox virtual machine into a physical dual-boot system
I'm running a Linux Mint 12 virtual machine in Virtualbox. I would like to move it into a dual-boot setup with my Windows 7 installation. I have lot of settings in there, and apps installed, and my ...
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open whole folder in gedit
Moving from OS X & Textmate to Ubuntu & gedit, the one feature of Textmate I am missing is it's command line tool.
With mate I was able to open a folder as a Textmate project using mate . ...
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Process Migration Scripting
I want to write some shell script which can perform the process migration from one node to another. Is it possible ? Can somebody please help me scripting this.
What all should I know before coding ...
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Migrating the KDE configuration files
I'm a KDE user, and When I switch Linux distributions, I don't want to copy my entire home folder, since most of the configuration files there will be created automatically when I install\run programs ...
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How to migrate from CentOS to RHEL?
What packages do I need to install to migrate my CentOS 5.7 server to identical version of RHEL. I have RHN subscription but I don't want to create a fresh install and move files.
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Case-insensitive file system for production server?
The initial situation looks like this:
The corporate software is PHP-based.
It is delivered by Apache 2 on a Windows 2003 Server.
It is big.
It is a legacy of rather unprofessional developers who ...
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Getting new server. How do I move everything over? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Moving linux install to a new computer
A buddy of mine has found me a new server for our role-playing forums we run and my other web sites. I finally have my current ...
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Moving Fedora to another computer
I have Fedora 16 - based server (file, MySQL, Web, SVN) that I am going to replace with a bigger machine. I plan to reinstall Fedora from scratch (with the help of rpm -qa). I am concerned that I am ...
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xfce swap command and control keys
What is the equivalent of this in Debian XFCE?:
Go into System -> Preferences -> Keyboard
Click on the "Layouts" tab and then click the "Layout Options" button.
Click on "Alt/Win key ...
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Moving from Ubuntu 32bit: Mint 64bit or Mint 32bit?
I have decided to try out Linux Mint instead of the horrible Ubuntu Unity experince.
I have a separate partition for my /home folder, which I'd like to preserve of course. So I'm curious: is it ...
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CentOS server migration
I have 2 dedicated servers at the moment both running CentOS 5.3 and Plesk 10, but I'm about to give up trying to transfer the data from old one to a new one, because they just wouldn't connect via ...
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VirtualBox image from running VPS
I have an Ubuntu Server 10.04 VPS (Virtual Private Server) that hosts my website. I would like to clone this VPS and create a VirtualBox machine from it. How can I do this?
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Is there a port list migration command set for FreeBSD?
On debianized linux distros there is dpkg --get-selections, dpkg --set-selections, dpkg -C to respectively list installed packages, select a list of packages for installations, and list packages that ...
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After cloning Fedora 14 install to another machine, onboard NIC is seen as eth1 instead of eth0. Why?
I have the following procedure for replicating a Fedora workstation setup.
Boot from a Live CD, make tgz's of the filesystems.
Go to new machine, make filesystems, dump the tgz's in the proper ...
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How do I migrate configuration between computers with different hardware?
I want to migrate the configuration of an Ubuntu desktop to a new box with different hardware. What is the easiest way to do this? /etc/ contains machine and hardware specific settings so I can't just ...
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How would you migrate from a Windows AD to a Linux LDAP server?
I currently run a Windows server with Active Directory. But since we're no longer using Exchange 2007, it became a fancy file server with authentication.
I would like to move the AD to a Linux ...
