You don’t want to “upgrade” a server. Everything’s got history, you, me, and technology, despite companies’ best attempts to even physically scrub encoded data off of machines. And maybe it’s not compatible with the older hardware. So, here’s role migration — Role onto a new server, with all the configuration of the old one.
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