EV1 is now offering the ability to restore a drive and get RHEL and cpanel setup. I am getting it done as we speak so I will see how it goes, it looks fine though.

As always do this all at your own risk, I have not had any trouble with it but if for whatever reason you mess up your box don't come back to me!

To minimize downtime I decided to have them put in a second drive as a slave, so when it was rebooted RHEL was not booted but rather the old rh9.

First do
#fdisk -l

This will list all partitions, usually the 2nd drive is /dev/hdbx or hdcx hddx.

#mkdir /mnt/rhel

#mount /dev/hddx /mnt/rhel
(or whatever /dev/ it is on)

Now copy over all of your daily backups, you DO keep daily backups right??

#mkdir /mnt/rhel/backup
#mkdir /mnt/rhel/backup/cpbackup/
#mkdir /mnt/rhel/backup/cpbackup/daily
#cp /backup/cpbackup/daily/* /mnt/rhel/backup/cpbackup/daily/
this will of course take a long time.

Now you should be ready to boot into the RHEL, which required putting in a ticket to ev1 telling them to switch the drives.

Once its booted first run
mkdir /root/cpanel; cd /root/cpanel; wget layer1.cpanel.net/latest;sh latest

to start the cpanel installer, it can take awhile (like hours) so leave lots of time when you do this. Once the installer is all done open WHM and do the basic config, then goto configure backups and restore all your backups!

Make sure and check out the how-to regarding how to secure cpanel and do the basic setup as this is going to be a new server.

eth00
I really don't want to sound stupid here BUT I don't see that offered in the members section for cPanel...Am I missing something?? :confused: It's time for 7.3 to go!

A little off topic but what part of NC? I'm headin to Spring Lake first two weeks of February...

Thank you

They keep saying its going to be put into the ordering system. I had to put directly what I wanted into the trouble ticket. Here are the two options I was able to get, forget who I emailed or talked with.





I went with the existing drive intact and install as a slave. Then I put in a TT that


Thats only because I wanted to get the upgrade done right now, they should have it soon on the order page. Then make sure and say you want the cpanel to license to be included and if they have any trouble with the order to NOT touch the server.



I live in the winston-salem area, near greensboro.

eth00

WoW...

That was a fast responce! Went for a cup of coffee and there was your responce!

Thank you! Was checking Rack Shack...ops...I mean ev1 every few hours since the begining of January for cPanel Upgrade info and nothing... You most definitely have shed some light!

Once completed I will follow your setup! A few more steps to add cause of back up files on another server but basically the same...

NC here I come!

Thank you!

Yea I am just sitting here procrastinating against doing this work, still have a few good hours to the day!

Backing up the stuff is always a good idea, it shoudl be safe but with bad luck they might wipe the old drive or something!

Keep your fingers crossed

I take it EV1 are not offering RHEL with cPanel just yet? I mean you have to run the cpanel installer yourself.

Would be interested in what cpu you have and how long the whole process takes. I only have a few accounts so my dailybackups are copied pretty fast. But how long does the installer take?

My server takes half an hour to do an easyapache compile...

I am going to run it later tonight but last time I did it, on a slower box, it took like 2 hours. Basically it will reinstall/install lots of rpms and takes awhile to get them from the web.

I will time it when I install it tonight, the test box is a 2.4 P4 with 1gb of ram.

They will run the installer for you if you want, but I figure if I do it I can watch exactly when its done and start the process of restoring all of the backups. After you hit the one command you don't have to do anything, or if so its nothing hard at all.

So will they actually give a new HD with RHE and cPanel already installed on it if you ask them??? Does it cost any more?

The reaon im asking is because I really cant afford much down time at all

Total Setup Fees are: $53.04

I think its some conversion or something, thats what I should be charged. Like I said soon should be getting the webpage updated to reflect cpanel. The disk only stays for 7 days then its removed, unless you ask for it to be removed earlier.

Does anyone know if I can purchase another server with RHEL and just move the clients over from my red hat llinux. Will this help so that there won't be any downtime.

Thanks inadvance
:confused:

Yes but you have to find a server for sale, there are few of them.