Hard drive needs to be replaced

[veronicabend]

Thanks again, chirpy.

I'm discussing mounting the old drive with the datacenter people but they only told me to be careful so I don't break the system with duplicate labels.

This is the output of the commands:

 df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3            1012M  244M  717M  26% /
/dev/sdb1              68G  760M   64G   2% /backup
/dev/sda1              99M   26M   69M  27% /boot
/dev/sda8              47G  257M   44G   1% /home
none                 1004M     0 1004M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda2            1012M   33M  928M   4% /tmp
/dev/sda6             9.9G  2.2G  7.2G  24% /usr
/dev/sda7             6.9G  151M  6.4G   3% /var
/tmp                 1012M   33M  928M   4% /var/tmp

fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 73.4 GB, 73407900160 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 8924 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *         1        13    104391   83  Linux
/dev/sda2            14       144   1052257+  83  Linux
/dev/sda3           145       275   1052257+  83  Linux
/dev/sda4           276      8924  69473092+   5  Extended
/dev/sda5           276       529   2040223+  82  Linux swap
/dev/sda6           530      1834  10482381   83  Linux
/dev/sda7          1835      2748   7341673+  83  Linux
/dev/sda8          2749      8924  49608688+  83  Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 73.4 GB, 73407900160 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 8924 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *         1      8924  71681998+  83  Linux

Disk /dev/sdc: 73.4 GB, 73407820800 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 8924 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdc1   *         1        13    104391   83  Linux
/dev/sdc2            14      1318  10482412+  83  Linux
/dev/sdc3          1319      2232   7341705   83  Linux
/dev/sdc4          2233      8924  53753490    f  Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdc5          2233      8408  49608688+  83  Linux
/dev/sdc6          8409      8539   1052226   83  Linux
/dev/sdc7          8540      8670   1052226   83  Linux
/dev/sdc8          8671      8924   2040223+  82  Linux swap

I issued this command they provided:
e2label /dev/sdc6
/

So I know /dev/sdc6 is the old / partition.

About stopping the services, I issue all this commands in the SSH box. THen run all the rsync stuff and updates, all from the original post, and then the final instructions you posted here :

/scripts/upcp --force

Then rebuild apache+php

Then run:

/scripts/fixeverything

I see some people found SSH access broken after doing this, and since I only access the server via SSH I am worried. ANy precautions about this?

Thanks, real real thanks again,
Veronica

[brianoz]

The WHM full backup creates tarballs (accountname.tar.gz files) which contains everything cPanel needs to restore the account in its entirety, including all the account data and files. It's the tarballs you would then FTP off the server (or copy to a spare drive) and then restore through the WHM restore functions.

As far as I'm aware, the cpanel tarballs don't backup or restore Mailman lists - so if you use cpanel mailing lists be aware they won't copy over. if someone knows whether this has changed I'd love to know.

Seems like you were going to use rsync, so the above caution may not apply, but thought it was worth mentioning in case anyone refers back to this thread.

[serversphere]

Veronica, can you update us on how you fared? Been a few days so hopefully all is well. Also, and this is totally up to you - don't want any harsh feelings - can you mention who the DC is? Might be someone people should check carefully into before they consider them if they are apprehensive about a simple data move. Hope all worked out!

[veronicabend]

Well, I finally got chirpy to help me with moving the data since I was fearing I was not going to do it well. I don't have much server knowledge and there were so many commands and things to take care of. He did a great job and all data was moved successfully in a few hours.
The datacenter people added another hard drive, and he moved everything from old drive to new one.

[chirpy]

As far as I'm aware, the cpanel tarballs don't backup or restore Mailman lists - so if you use cpanel mailing lists be aware they won't copy over. if someone knows whether this has changed I'd love to know

Must have changed as I recently moved our own sites to a new server using backups and it transferred over the mailman mailing lists that we use. Indeed, in the backup tarball they can be found in mm/ and mma/ subdirs.

[RobM]

Hey chirpy

Here a question for you that you may help us with.

We have a server /usr filling up ( think it a bad drive ) so we are changing it.

We have Fedora 2 on the old server HD and CentOS 4.2 on the new HD. Now we did a backup on the server to a new drive backup drive.

The reason was the old backup failed when we installed centos and kept saying can’t find backup drive.

But after the backups where taken we switched the drive ( main ) to centos and when we click Restore Backups the list is blank.

Now if we CD to the backup the files are there...

Do you know why Centos / WHM does not see the backups?

[chirpy]

You need to be sure to configure WHM > Configure Backup > first. Preferrably change the first setting to Restore so cPanel doesn't wipe out the existing backup until you've finsihed restoring, then set it to Enabled.

[RobM]

You need to be sure to configure WHM > Configure Backup > first. Preferrably change the first setting to Restore so cPanel doesn't wipe out the existing backup until you've finsihed restoring, then set it to Enabled.

Did that already, the only thing we have not done was setup the package yet which I did not test as it starting getting late so we aborted the upgrade. until the weekend so business don't have morning troubles.

[AndyReed]

Did that already, the only thing we have not done was setup the package yet which I did not test as it starting getting late so we aborted the upgrade. until the weekend so business don't have morning troubles.

Do you see the backup partition when you run this command:
df -Th

You probably did this, but make sure your old/backup partition umount/mount properly.