[Spacewalk-list] 0.7 - Hardware Migration

[Michael Mraka]

Tom Brown wrote:
> I have 0.7 running OK on a test VM with 20 or so clients - I want to  
> move this onto the production box and i wonder what is the best approach  
> to be able to do that?
>
> Install 0.7 on the new box
> Sync over /var/spacewalk
> Export/Import the db ? (i note that exp and imp dont seem to be in  
> oracle lite??)

* Backup things mentioned on
  https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/SpacewalkBackup
* install new 0.7 spacewalk
* restore from backup

> What would i need to do to the clients to make them talk to the new  
> spacewalk box?

The easiest way is to move original spacewalk DNS name to the new host.
Otherwise you have to re-register clients one by one (rhnreg_ks).

> any clues?

Regards,
Michael

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Michael Mráka
Satellite Engineering, Red Hat