Hi, I was just wondering if it would be possible to spread IPC accross to 2 disks. Also wondering what sort of partions i would set up. I currently have to servers though i have decided to merge them, into one bigger powerfull one, this is how i would like the disks set up ----------- 1 - 20gb - System Disk (OS) 2 - 20gb - ISPConfig Control Panel 3 - 120gb - Users Sites --------- Any ideas how i could set up this configuration, with ispc and partions? Thanks, Alex
Just the first thing that came to mind, to split everything up neatley but with a bit of thought its probably better to have something like this: ----------- 1 - 20gb - System Disk (OS) + ISPConfig Control Panel 2 - 20gb - Raid Mirror of disk 1 3 - 120gb - Users Sites --------- How would i get the users site when i install ispc to not be on the system disk /ipsc disk and to be on disk 3? Thanks, Alex
The control panel is installed in /root/ispconfig and /home/admispconfig, the web sites are usually created in /var/www or /srv/www, but you can specify that during the installation. So if you let ISPConfig create web sites in /var/www, you could create a /var/www partition on the 120GB disk before you install ISPConfig.
Also a few other questions: I need to have an exact copy of another ispc server on this ispc server would i just need to put the users site in /srv/www and get a backup mysql? and run that? What about the system users it creates? Also can i install apache, profptd, quota, etc before i have set up the sites partion at /srv/www Thanks, Alex
Why don't you use your 120GB disk for the /var partition and let ISPConfig create web sites in /var/www? If your MySQL databases are in /var/lib/mysql, they'd be on the big disk as well.
Didnt think of that becuase my site are in srv/www but if ispc let you set the dir of the sites then thats sorted So once i have got my disks set up i would like to tranfer data from my old server to my new server. Would i just have to copy the sites to the web directory and get a sql database backup of ispconfig and and of my users sql database Would this fully move the server? as the system users it creates would not be there, would ispc restore these automatically? Thanks, alex EDIT: would i just be able to copy var/lib/mysql to my new server and copy /srv/www to var/www then would my new server be an exact copy of how it was before
Looks good Thanks I just have to make this run a smothly as possible as the 120gb is my current servers hard disk so my server will be down till i have moved its disk at got it up and running on the new server
where are the pri*.zone files kept on opensuse10.2? Thanks, Alex EDIT: Ok i have backed up the following files: -> SQL BACKUP : DUMP -> Mail : mail.tar.gz -> Sites : www.tar.gz -> ProFTPD : proftpd.conf, proftpd.conf.orig, proftpd_ispconfig.conf -> Users : etc/password /etc/shaddow -> Named.c:nf, group -> Vhosts : etc/apache2/vhosts_ispconfig.conf -> Postfix: /etc/postfix/loca-host-names, /etc/prostfix/virtualusertable -> ISPConfig: /home/admispconfig, /root/ispconfig still need to know where the pri*.zone files are kept? Can you see anything i have missed
Thanks, ill try that later. As i am going to mount my 120gb hard drives as /var what about the operating system files already in var? Do i have to reinstall my os aswell?
The following is untested but may work: 1) mount the new HD as e.g. /var_new 2) Copy all files and directories from /var to /var_new with presever permissions. 3) Edit /etc/fstab so that the new harddisk is mounted as /var on next beoot and reboot your server.
If i had a spare hard drive i would test it in the new server but i dont have one, and at the moment i have no money so...
Well a Virtual Machine is easily created to play around. No extra hardware, and yet a full operational system ...... to test and play. With snapshots you can even recover quickly from mistakes.....
