Lenovo Ideacentre - how to start on power application?

[Bo Berglund]

On Fri, 18 Oct 2024 10:46:13 +0100, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

>How are we supposed to know, Bo? Really, I want to help, but how should I know?

I know you do, but I stated the PC make so that those using that brand could
chip in...

I am now thinking of porting the running server to new PC hardware (have to buy
that first of course) using a scheme somewhat like this:

- Use the GParted I have on a ventoy USB stick to clone the 3 partitions for my
existing server onto the new PC's drive (operating system root, subversion
repositories, home). The old server needs to be shut down here of course to grab
the disk.

- At this point the disk of the new PC contains my server's 3 partitions and
possibly other stuff preloaded by the PC maker like an efi partition and
possibly 2 windows partitions (ouch!).

- Next I think I have to somehow manipulate the grub system such that on boot
the copied server should start up. This might be the showstopper....

If the server starts on the new hardware I guess I could upgrade it using apt to
the level where Ubuntu would offer to do a release-upgrade to the next LTS
level...

This may result in a system, that will work like the current one, but since it
is in reality an Ubuntu that has been upgraded already from 16.04 LTS -> 18.04
LTS -> new hardware -> 20.04.6 LTS and I need to go to 24.04 LTS there might be
a number of unsolved upgrade issues, which would not be present if I instead
could install the very latest 24.04 from scratch and *port the settings*....

But doing that feels like an impossibly difficult task given all that this
server runs...

There is:
- a Subversion backup server receiving nightly updates from another SVN server
- an OpenVPN server for the local LAN with multiple services running
- a Webserver for my own use with the certs from LetsEncrypt
- a local media server for video material
- and more...

It might be too much for me to do. :(

-- 
Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden