Hi Stelian,
My work on cl-net migration got stuck a little on tech.coop internal work this week. However, I'm fully back to the migration and I'm making copies of /project and /home right now. I suppose I'll be creating a copy of much inside /custom too, when the other two transfers have finished.
If you make a backup while the server is still accessible you'll lose data modified after the backup but before the restore and switch to the new server.
Absolutely agreed. So, copying the data from an lvm snapshot is not the only action. However, in the past, I've been able to reduce downtimes of servers to just minutes by copying the bulk of the data in advance, followed by bringing down the server, doing a quick rsync and bringing up the new server. It's the plan I intend to use this time aswell.
Well, this part (moving everything to NFS) is finished. lisppaste has been restarted, but is rebuilding its in-memory metadata database from disc, so it may take a while to come back up. Please report any issues.
Bye,
Erik.