Floods of Emails Coming In To /var/spool/mqueue
Robert L Cochran
cochranb at speakeasy.net
Mon Jan 7 01:49:45 UTC 2008
Les Mikesell wrote:
> Robert L Cochran wrote:
>
>> I guess I'm going to have to figure out how to do an in-place
>> replacement of the operating system. I can install a second physical
>> hard drive, install Fedora 8 or CentOS 5 on that, and then start
>> migrating data from the FC 2 system to the new one over several days
>> time. I can use grub to switch between the two.
>
> That can work with a certain amount of downtime while you install and
> juggle things although it's a lot easier if you can build the
> replacement on a different machine and swap it (or the drives) into
> place when everything works with a final rsync of data at the last
> minute. If you plan to keep this running for years without
> reinstalling, Centos would be a better choice, since you can expect
> 'yum update' to supply security fixes for 7 years.
>
Using a separate machine might be possible, yes. You are suggesting the
that I rsync specific data directories to the new drive -- I've never
done that before, but there is a first time for everything.
Thanks!
Bob
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