Hi All,

I want to rebuild my server but I don't want the downtime.

The only way I can think of doing this is to "Add a linode" to my account, do the rebuild, wait for DNS to propagate and then cancel the old one after a week.

Ideas?

Mike

Hi Mike -

That is the only way to do it without downtime.

You may find the following threads to be useful, depending on how you plan to rebuild your Linode:

http://www.linode.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2709

http://www.linode.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2690


-Tom

Interesting that this is coming up at the moment as i was thinking of doing the same thing, however i dont particularly want to have to kill my old server, for billing etc.

If i was to do the same thing, buy a new node for a month, rebuild, make a nice new production system, would it be possible for that image to be moved across and replace the old one, and then just not renew the monthly one?

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You could always boot your old linode into the "rescue" image (hmm, forget what it's called; there's a distribution which doesn't require any linode disk space) and copy your monthly image over and reboot. 'ssh monthly dump | restore' or similar might work.

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Stephen
(Linux user since kernel version 0.11)

That's precisely what I did last month - Tom's first link above will take you to the method I used. Assuming your new temporary node is hosted in the same DC, you shouldn't even need to contact Linode to get the ball rolling on this.