I'm in the process of migrating an existing server to new hardware. The current server is using a dedicated boot drive and the backup data is stored in a ZFS raidz2 volume. Normally I would just move all the disks to the new server and job's done. However, in this case it also involves migrating from BIOS to EFI boot.
I can see two possible ways to do this:
I can see two possible ways to do this:
- Converting the boot drive to EFI-boot (seems like a lot of hassle and the PBS would be inaccessible in the meantime)
- Convert the boot drive
- Move all the disks to the new server
- On the new server:
- Do a clean PBS install
- Shut down the PBS services
- Copy the /etc/proxmox-backup directory from the old server
- Move the ZFS drives to the new server
- Import the zpool
- Activate the PBS services.