Upgrade Path Guide

[logdrum]

Hi

I installed Amahi when the OS requirement was Fedora 9. We have 2 raid arrays holding a lot of graphics and media files and desktop and laptop PBA backups (12 TB size 8 TB files in Raid 5), so it is not just a home assistant setup.

I never really thought of upgrading but it looks like I do not have a choice.

The only thing that I have done differently was making sure that the arrays were mounted to /opt/hda in rc.init before the daemons started, everything else in plain Vanilla Amahi late 2008. The system ran with three reboots last year, 2 were caused by the UPS not holding long enough, so it has been stable as a rock and the 5 folks sharing the network are really dependent on this plus it also runs video encoding on the side and the bi-weekly notebook back ups.

I already ordered 5 2TB drives and will probably just copy the files by hand...

Should I just blow the Fedora 9 away or is there an upgrade path. I also have the ffmpeg and divx encoding so yum has been tied to the livna repository and that has is gone it seems.

The culprit really is some of the folks have to have Windows 7 and now my samba version is not co existing with Windows. Amahi has really grown big in just over a year. I am really lost a where to start.

Thanks

[moredruid]

logdrum,

I'm facing (more or less) the same challenge due to new server hardware.

however, as long as your RAID arrays are managed separately (i.e. not in de root logical volumes) you should be able to either:
- upgrade fedora (though not recommended) by using yum upgrade from 9 to 10, 10 to 11 and 11 to 12 (or immediately make the jump from 9 to 12)
- create a backup of your RAID config files (and your rc script); disconnect your data drives; clean install F12 and restore your config files; reconnect your data drives. Linux should pick them up and mount them accordingly. You may have to rescan for VG/LVs but this is automagically done at boot time so I think it's not necessary.

of course you've created a reliable backup (test random restores!) before.

Good luck!