[SLL] Procedural advice wanted.

[Paul Franz]

I have a server I want to upgrade with a clean install. I don't want to take the
server down until it the replacement is working. In order to do the upgrade I need
access to the running server for files to transfer and existing configurations to
reference.

If I install the OS on a new machine in the network, it will have the name and IP
associated with that name. Maybe I should do that and change the name before testing.
It seems to me this will be frought with problems. Maybe the configurations for
installed software such as bind, mail, dovecot, etc will take on the characteristics
of the new machine, for example. Or maybe the test didn't work and I have to change
the name back to something else.

There are quite a number of files under /etc/ that have the server's name in it so
renaming would be a chore.

Any advice?

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Paul Franz
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