How to swap DIETPI- Server-(Hardware)

General Discussion
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Dear all
I have two Dietpi-Server running. One in my weekend house based on a Raspberry and one at home based on an old Chrome-Box. This uses AMD/X86 (Intel Core I7).

Both installations are running complete different services.

And now I would like to swap the hardware.
Is there an easy way to do that?
Thanks a lot
Karl

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I would try this:

  1. Do a backup of both systems on an external HDD via DietPi-Backup
  2. Do a crosswise Restore via DietPi-Backup
  3. Check your systems whether all is runnung well
  4. In case of problems, perform the resore with the original systems so that you achieve the initial state and think about setting both systems up from the DietPi base installation

EDIT: This can only work if both systems have a PC architecture (amd64).

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If both systems habe the same disk types ( e.g. 2,5", SATA), you could easily exchange only the disks.

A backup done before would be the fallback if anything fails (no backup, no mercy :grinning:).

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You are not able to switch between these 2 or what do you mean to swap hardware?

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sorry for my bad English.

I mean
Server A (X86) runs e.g services A
and

Server B (AMD) runs services B

and now I want to change the HW so that

server B runs services A
and vice versa.

6

Not possible without reinstall everything because you are going to switch cpu architecture

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@KarlExler I am a bit confused.
At the top you write
“One in my weekend house based on a Raspberry and one at home based on an old Chrome-Box.”

With this I assume (like Joulinar also assumed) server A is a Raspberry Pi with an ARM (e.g. aarch64) architecture and server B is a Chromebox with a PC (amd64) architecture.

Below you write
“Server A (X86)…” and “Server B (AMD)…”.

With this I assume you have two amd64 architectures.

Can you clearify this? Which kind of CPUs do the systems have (in your first post, the Chromebox has an Intel i7, i.e. an amd64)

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one is a Rasperry, which uses ARM processors and the other is a ChromeBox with an Intel Processor. But I guess I can handle this “operation” alone.. So far I checked until now, there is no typical process. The only one question I have: WHERE and how can I change the hostname of the workstation?
Thanks Karl

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dietpi-config

???

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You can also look there for further dietpi-config features:

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