BYO Ubuntu LHR/VHR to v13

[darryl]

Hello,

We're currently on 12.3 VBR.

We have a Ubuntu based LHR that we setup a few years ago on a physical Poweredge with a bunch of local storage, as was the recommendation at the time. This pre-dates the hardened installation ISO; it was a manual OS install with Veeam LHR components added on afterwards.

Is the below correct:
a) We won't be able to upgrade our LHR to VIA/JeOS as it wasn't deployed from the Veeam ver 2 hardened ISO. If it had been, we would be able to.
b) We can continue to use the LHR as is and just update the Veeam related components as needed via the VBR, it just won't have the new aspects of the VIA (hardened, integrated OS updates).

I don't really want to reinstall the server and try to figure out how not to lose the existing data. Is there even a procedure for this?

[Mildur]

Hi Darryl

1.) + 2.) correct.

There is no procedure. You could deploy a new Hardened Repository on a new machine and use Move Backup for backup file migration.

Best,
Fabian

[darryl]

Fabian,

Thanks for the quick response.

For the last item I was more referring to on the same hardware, if I wanted to setup the physical LHR on the same hardware as a VIA install but not lose the backup data already in the local filesystem. The backup data is contained on a different array so could be preserved, but not sure about re-presenting that to VIA afterwards and having it usable.

Eg: End state: Same physical server, installed as VIA, but still has my original immutable repository.

Even if there was a procedure I'm not sure I would want to risk it anyways..

As long as 1-2 are true we can probably just keep going like that until the hardware is end of life, and start with VIA during a server refresh.

[Mildur]

An in-place migration from BYO to VIA isn't supported now and likely won't be in the future. I suggest staying with BYO until your next hardware replacement.

Best,
Fabian