Moving data from one server to another

[Ben Scott]

On 12/1/06, David Hardy <belovedbold357 at gmail.com> wrote:
> We have an older (and ailing) Dell PowerEdge 6300 running RH 9.0 and
> overloaded with a ton of (no-longer-sold and barely supported) Telemation
> phone system software.

  Is the new system going to be running the same exact barely
supported software?

  If so, you might be better off just coping the entire system
(including RHL 9) from old to new, and then fixing RHL 9 as demand
requires.  Sure, RHL 9 is rather old, and in fact smells pretty bad at
this point, but it sounds like you're already in that boat with the
phone software.

  Just a thought.

  Otherwise, about the only thing you can do is copy things over "by
hand", and try to fit all the pieces together, and fix things as you
discover they are broken.  Yes, this sucks.  And we're pleased to call
IT a "profession".  :-(

  One possible help: RPM knows about every file it has installed.  One
could write a program which searched the entire system, and report
every file not "owned" by an RPM package.  That might help you filter
out the bulk of the generic OS stuff.

  (I'm assuming this phone software is not RPM based.  If it is, just use RPM.)

-- Ben