To prepare for the migration of my website, Gopher burrow and
Prosody Jabber-server from my home network to a external VM, I
created a Debian virtual machine on my FreeBSD laptop and wrote
some scripts that do most of the work.
The scripts install some packages and create the config
files.
Smooth process
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When the VM came available, all I had to do was to scp the
scripts, and run those.
All in all it went smooth.
I did some testing, and everything looks fine.
Of course, as always, the proof of the pudding is in the eating.
Tomorrow we'll see if the phlog-roll script is working as expected.
Next steps
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I have not dived into the SMTP server. Currently I have a FreeBSD
jail running Sendmail together with OpenDKIM.
Sendmail can sometimes produce some nice challenges.
DNS changed
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The DNS is changed, pointing to the new VM, and in a few minutes
the new VM is, as they say, 'in production'.
