[newbie alert]
Hello,
I apologize in advance for what might be a number of stupid questions.
I've been having a problem with intermittent shutdown of my home PBS server. Link to hardware issue discussion.
Given that I have PBS running on old hardware, and it doesn't make sense to spend money and time to find which bit of hardware is failing, I've decided to replace with a newer tower.
The old hardware will run anywhere from 2 min to 16 hrs so trying to migrate/sync boot disk might work or might not work. I want to physically move the data drives to the new hardware. The data drives are all ZFS and I believe the boot disk is ZFS.
I know this is a potential recipe for disaster but wanted to ask if it is possible to just move the drives to the newer tower? If it were identical hardware, I assume it would work. In this case, it is newer hardware but a newer generation Intel x64 processor.
If this is a really bad idea, then is the migration process like this: boot the old hardware long enough to export the ZFS data pools, move the data disks, install pbs on the new hardware, copy the /etc/proxmox-backup from old to the new hardware, restart new hardware, and re-import the zfs data disks? Is this possible?
Thanks in advance for any guidance.
Hello,
I apologize in advance for what might be a number of stupid questions.
I've been having a problem with intermittent shutdown of my home PBS server. Link to hardware issue discussion.
Given that I have PBS running on old hardware, and it doesn't make sense to spend money and time to find which bit of hardware is failing, I've decided to replace with a newer tower.
The old hardware will run anywhere from 2 min to 16 hrs so trying to migrate/sync boot disk might work or might not work. I want to physically move the data drives to the new hardware. The data drives are all ZFS and I believe the boot disk is ZFS.
I know this is a potential recipe for disaster but wanted to ask if it is possible to just move the drives to the newer tower? If it were identical hardware, I assume it would work. In this case, it is newer hardware but a newer generation Intel x64 processor.
If this is a really bad idea, then is the migration process like this: boot the old hardware long enough to export the ZFS data pools, move the data disks, install pbs on the new hardware, copy the /etc/proxmox-backup from old to the new hardware, restart new hardware, and re-import the zfs data disks? Is this possible?
Thanks in advance for any guidance.