Hello there!
Here’s the situation: i have a physical server with Virtualmin Pro running on it, hosting several domains.
That physical machine has to go, and I am preparing a new, Cloudmin-based setup. There will be XEN VM running Virtualmin Pro.
The goal is to migrate all Virtualmin domains from the physical machine to the new VM.
I have thought of one possible migration scenario:
- Shutdown all services except Bind and Virtualmin, and firewall their ports, stop the cron daemon
- Update the Zones so they point to the new IP
- Make Virtualmin backups and make them upload directly to the new VM (which has all ports except Virtualmin closed)
- Restore all backups on the VM
- Open the ports on the VM
Now this is going to take several hours, given that a full backup takes about 5-6 hours on my system, then probably a couple of hours to restore etc…
Now, after playing around with Cloudmin, I discovered a neat feature called “Virtualmin Replication” (or something like that). Is that maybe a better way of migrating the stuff over? I thought about these steps, though I am not sure if it is doable:
- Setup replication and do a first replication, so all data is copied over
- When replication is done, shut down and firewall all services on the old machine and update the replication (which hopefully will take not much time)
- Update the IP in the zone files
What do you recommend?