With the announcement that Centos is moving to Centos Stream, and support for Centos 8 will end in 2021, is there a safe way to migrate the files (webserver, sql server) to a different OS. The goal is to move from Centos to Debian or one of the other servers with little to no downtime. What would be the safest way to do this? Thank you in advance
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You can also run the following three commands (as root) and migrate your server to CentOS Stream:
dnf -y install centos-release-stream
dnf -y swap centos-{linux,stream}-repos
dnf -y distro-sync
That’s it.
Hi there @mywritingblock,
I personally believe that the safest way to do this is to follow these steps here:
rsyncfor example copy over your files and migrate your databasesRegards, Bobby