Need to move a debian server from i686 to x86_64 architecture
- by user64204
I have a debian server that I need to move from one hosting provider to another. I don't really know how the old server was setup, all I know is that it's running a Ruby on Rails application with a lot of custom libraries installed and that I should prepare myself for a painful migration.
Old server:
-os: debian 5.0.9
-used disk space: 3.2GB
-architecture: i686
New server:
-os: debian 5.0.9
-free disk space: 10GB
-architecture: x86_64
As you can see the problem is that the servers are running different architectures.
Q: Is there anyway I could somehow migrate the old to the new server in a few steps (or am I just dreaming I could) ?
I was thinking maybe I could:
-get list of packages and gems installed on old server and use for loop to install them all on the new
-copy the disk content from old to new server while excluding what is architecture-specific (the problem is that I don't really know what to exclude).
