[Samba] samba migration to another llinux distro

[Gaiseric Vandal]

You may have two general options

-  Have the new machine appear to be the old machine.    Run "testparm 
-v" to verify the location of the private directory, locks directory etc 
and other files that you need to move over.


-  Setup the new machine as a BDC in the domain, migrate your data over, 
then promote the new machine to a PDC and demote and remove the old 
machine.  This is probably easier if you have an LDAP backend.   
Otherwise you can probably copy the samba private directory over from 
one machine to another.


About the other questions

-  If you want Windows 7 support you need Samba 3.4 or Samba 3.5.   I 
would go with Fedora Core 12 since it already has Samba 3.4.    Of 
course you can always compile from source.  You may therefore want to 
consider having the server move as one project, and then a  samba 
upgrade as another project.   You could also setup a new machine as a 
BDC (as described above) with Samba 3.4.x.   As you may have seen from 
other posts, there are changes to may need to make when you move from 
Samba 3.0.x to 3.4.x.


-FC11 doesn't seem to like ext4 for the /boot file system.  I would 
google ext4.   Some people have an issue with the changes in journaling 
from ext3.   I personally would stick with ext3.


And about raid-

- The 3ware 9650SE raid controller is a true hardware raid (I am using a 
few.)  This means that you should be able to configure disks in a 
hardware raid set and move it to another server that also has a 3ware 
raid card.

-  The intel ICH7 and ICH9  raid controller built into some mother 
boards is "firmware raid" (aka "fake raid.")  This means that the OS has 
to have drivers for the controller and that the PC  OS and CPU is doing 
the RAID processing.   I found out the hardway that Fedora Core 11 did 
not include the appropriate drivers for it, even tho RedHat Enterprise 
Linux 5.x did.      With Linux, you should either use true hardware raid 
or true software raid.

The upside of software raid is that you can then move the disks from one 
machine to another.


-  Don't use RAID5 for your /boot or OS slices.      If your raid 
configuration gets messed up the system can't boot.   A messed up mirror 
is easier to recover from.  RAID5 for your data is OK-  since at that 
point the OS is up and running.     Some of my colleagues argue you 
shouldn't even use a mirror for your /boot partition, but instead should 
just back it up to another disk.





On 06/15/2010 05:56 AM, Hubert Choma wrote:
> Hello
> I need a description how to move painlessly samba from one system to
> another without re-adding to the domain windows clients. Currently, I
> have samba Version 3.0.28a-1.fc7
> on Fedora 7 and I want to move it on CentOS 5.5 As far as the server
> hardware remains the same. In addition to changing the system i would
> like to change new disks and add a new 3ware 9650SE Raid controller
> (samba will operate in RAID 5 )
>
> My questions:
> - How to move a painless system that do not add clients to the domain
> again
> - Domain must have the same SID
> - Which file system will be more efficient for the samba (3TB
> partition), ext3, ext4, xfs?
> - Whether the version of samba in Centos 5.5 is compatible with windows
> 7 (standard centos 5.5 repos)
> - If I make raid volumes(3ware controller) with installed centos 5.5 on
> the another motherboard (gigabyte EG41MF-US2h)  and configure samba and
> bring it along with the disks to intel server motherboard linux will
> start ??
>
> Installation and configuration on the test machine will shorten the time
> necessary to migrate.
>
> Please help
>
>
>