When upgrading a SME Server version 6 to version 7, you are quite likely to upgrade the hardware at the same time.
This procedure allows you to physically remove the hard drive from the old SME 6 server and temporarily mount it in the new server for purposes of restoration. The original hard drive is not modified. This new functionality is now built into SME 7.
Unless further research shows otherwise, we recommend you upgrade 5.5 servers to 5.6 then upgrade to 6.0 using the CDs before upgrading to SME 7.
Reference
Official Howto (It's much more complete these days and has info for 7.x to 7.x)
Old SME 6 Server
On the old SME 6 server prior to shutting down do:
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event pre-backup
then shutdown & remove the hard drive.
New SME 7 Server
On the new machine do a fresh install of SME 7.
Shut down and install the old 6.0 hard drive and start machine.
cd /
mkdir /mnt/tmp
mount /dev/sdb6 /mnt/tmp
Adjust "sdb6" according to wherever the 6.0 drive is detected. USB, SATA and SCSI drives will be detected as sdx. You will want to verify that you have the right partition mounted before proceeding with the restore.
/sbin/e-smith/db configuration setprop backup Program CopyFromDisk status enabled
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event pre-restore
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event restore-tape /mnt/tmp
That last step may take a long time depending on how much data is being restored.
cd /etc/e-smith
mv templates-custom templates-custom.old
mkdir templates-custom
mv templates-user-custom templates-user-custom.old
mkdir templates-user-custom
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event post-upgrade
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event reboot
Shutdown and remove the old SME 6 hard drive.
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