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Installation and Upgrades / Migrating Z4.2 to Z5.x (new VM box)

« on: May 22, 2017, 05:26:23 am »

We have an existing server running Z4.2.  We want to upgrade to Z5.x.  We are running VMWare server and have Z4.2 running as a virtual machine (VM).  We plan to create a new VM and install Z5.x on that (to get more space allocated to the server).  But we want to migrate all the files, shares, devices and user accounts over.

I do not see any guides on best practices for this.  Can you point me or give me some detailed step by step on the best method.

Setting up a new VM with Z5.0 is the least of my problems ...it's the migrating of the stuff is the problem.  The existing Z4.2 VM is not big enough to handle the new Ubuntu 16.x LTS server   In fact I tried once using the Software Update feature and it failed miserably ...had to revert to a prior VM snapshot.

The plan is to retire the Z4.2 VM to free up the space.  We are planning to do the migration on the June 2 weekend.

Any help would be GREAT!   TIA.

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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Upgrade Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty) LTS to Ubuntu 16.06 (Xenial) LTS?? Zentyal 4.2.2

« on: November 28, 2016, 04:13:42 am »

Thank you.

It does not remove the old files that are found in /boot directory.  Those are the the files I have to regularly delete in order to make the updates work.  These are files used by grub boot loader.  So, I dele all but the current and 1 version older.

As for the Ubuntu OS upgrade -- will there be a way to upgrade BOTH Zentyal 4.2.2 to 5.0 AND Ubuntu from 14.04 to 16.04 LTS?  Or would this require building a new VM and somehow migrating all the stuff over?

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Installation and Upgrades / Upgrade Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty) LTS to Ubuntu 16.06 (Xenial) LTS?? Zentyal 4.2.2

« on: November 26, 2016, 06:28:56 am »

When I log into the web admin and check for updates.  I apply all that appear there.  That's no problem.  From time to time, I need to clear out 2/3rds of the fils in the /boot folder to make room for the updates.

1) Can these older grub files be deleted automatically (and basically keep current version plus 1 version back)

Now, when I SSH into the Zentyal server, I see a message about upgrading the Ubuntu server LTS to the latest version.  Today, I tried this (after making VM snapshots) and completely blew up my Zentyal.  I reverted back.  I tried the other option (switch to the latest kernel) but that one made the web console unusable.  (you could log in, but that's about it)  Using the web admin from your computer works better

2) Can we upgrade the LTS to Xenial without loosing Zentyal?

Thank you in advance.

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Directory and Authentication / Backing up the entire /home directory folder??? -- Zentyal 4.2.2

« on: November 26, 2016, 06:20:27 am »

We have Zentyal server 4.2.2 for over a year now -- running in a VM on VMWare server.

We've been making snapshots on a regular basis while I try and find a solution to doing regular backups of the user data (home directors basically) to the NAS.

I have been able to mount a folder (/media/backups) as a CIFS mount point via FSTAB and I know this works when I tested it with the account I was logged as  (admin account)

I have installed Duplicity and it does work ..but it gave me a boatload of error when it tried to access each of the user's folder in the /home directory.  I did a SSH talent into the server and noticed that those folders only have user permission (no group or world access)  I also tried hop33 solution but I never could get that to run the backup, period.

How in the world can we easily do a backup (as sysadmin) of the entire /home folder?

Thank you in advance