Moving server to new IPs

[prophecy]

What would be the best way to go about doing this?

Basically want to move the server (hardware and all) to new rack with new ips with minimal downtime.

[l0rdphi1]

I recently had a server move forced upon me and here what I did:
Installed a clean DA on the new server

Re-created all user accounts on the new server (using random string for password)

Tarred and transfered to new server: /home/*
/var/named/*
/var/spool/virtual/*
/var/lib/mysql/*
/usr/local/directadmin/data/*
Ran a search and replace changing my old IP to the new IP on all files in /var/named and /usr/local/directadmin/data

Modified my nameserver IPs with my domain registrarI think that's everything that was involved. It's probably not the easiest method, but it works :)

Make sure you leave the old server up until everyone's domains repropagate. (Forwarding all incoming requests to the new server is another thing I did.)

Phi1.

[prophecy]

Ok, I don't have to change servers, just IPs. I'm using the same hardware, but I want to have a smooth transition.

[DirectAdmin Support]

Hello,

I wrote a little guide to help people through this. I hope to make script to do this in the future.

http://www.directadmin.com/change_ip.txt

John

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