UPDATE: Migrated my homeserver to Debian Etch
April 5th, 2008 by TheBonsai
Last night I finally migrated my allroundserver (gateway, fileserver, mailserver, …) to Debian Etch. This time I din’t 1:1 copy any configs - the oldest configs were nearly 5-6 years old and surely contained some bugs.
Regardless the usually “small problems” it wasn’t a big deal, and at least the gateway functionality was up again 30 minutes after I purged the old system - a Mandrake 10.1.
I’ll do the rest step by step, especially refining quickshot configs, but at the moment, about 90% of the services are working like they did before.
It really was time to replace that Mandrake there. No updates anymore, no modern software, no way to blindly upgrade on-the-fly (at least I didn’t take enough drugs to assume that this Mandrake would survive it), and not a Debian 
Overall, it was easier than I thought (I expected more trouble), but that seems to be the nature of Debian…
UPDATE-01:
The migration of the LDAP user database was buggy. It wasn’t a big deal, since I didn’t even recognize it until yesterday evening, but the UNIX groups weren’t served by the LDAP server … which leads me to the question: “Do I need groups at all?”
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April 5th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
Depends. I would say: Everyone made his or her personal experience with different distributions. Last time i used Debian, i had not ending problems with it.
Anyway - Shouldn’t it be “mandriva”?
April 6th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Mandriva/Mandrake:
It was old system
April 7th, 2008 at 9:31 am
Great
My Etch gateway has had 225 days uptime until Sunday, but finally I had to apply some kernel and library security fixes. Now its zeroized…
Regards
Usn
April 8th, 2008 at 11:05 am
i have to update my servers more often because of security fixes… well, hosting servers
Switch-Uptime 1 283 days
Switch-Uptime 2 308 days
Server 1: up 19 days
Server 2: up 22 days
Server 3: up 176 days
an none of them is running debian
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