Humbaba

humbaba setup notes

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Mirroring drives with RAID 1
Setting up Subversion
Upgrading from Debian 6 "Squeeze" to Debian 7 "Wheezy"
Upgrading from Debian 7 "Wheezy" to Debian 8 "Jessie" \\ Setting up Dovecot for POP3 and IMAP

2015-05-09

The last few days have been spent attempting to setup up a thin-client box as a new server. Trials and tribulations! My intention has been to use RAID1 disk mirroring on this new box, and I have performed a number of experimental tests to learn how the software raid driver in Linux works, and how to create and raid array on an already running system. These experiments went well, and taught me a lot. The trouble came when I tried to build up a raid on a second server (humbaba) rather than the primary (gusoyn) server. I didn't want to disturb gusoyn since it is my production system. Instead, I wanted to build up humbaba as a new server, with the filesystem duplicated from gusoyn, then set up the raid from there.

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In the end, I installed a fresh OS to the new USB disk, then rsync'd the filesystem (without /home yet) excluding all the key empty root dirs, and /boot and /dev. Then I booted up (grub still didn't work out of the box; I had to manually enter the grub lines) and then modified the key files in /etc to change the system from gusoyn to humbaba.