[Lula] Changing distros

[Christopher Smith]

Shane Liesegang wrote:
> One of the servers I run is due for a hardware upgrade, and I'd like to
> take the opportunity at the same time to do a rebuild, since it was
> originally built when I knew less about Linux and is a bit... how do we
> say... hacked together and unstable.
> 
> I'd like to switch it from Fedora to Ubuntu. (Not starting a distro war,
> it's just the one I now prefer.) Because we're replacing the single hard
> drive with a pair of drives that will be setup as RAID 1, the original
> data will be untouched and available at all times. (And ready to be
> swapped back in in case of failure. :-))
> 
> Does anybody have experience with this sort of thing? Is there a
> known-good way to transfer user accounts, quotas, server configs, etc.
> with a minimal amount of fuss?
> 
> Any advice would be appreciated, as I've never done this kind of
> operation before.

A key thing here would be how this data is currently set up. If it's 
LDAP then the process should be pretty simple, but if it's say file 
based, you got to copy *just* the right files. ;-)

--Chris
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