I’m getting better at this webserver migration stuff. (Note to Universe At Large: This is not a hint that I want more practice!) I only forgot three things, and they were all easily corrected:

1. Feed on Feeds: Lil’s & Kyla’s website feed readers didn’t make the transition very gracefully at first. It turns out that a MySQL export dump from version 3.x may not import very well into a 4.1 system. (Of course, the WordPress exports & imports worked just fine. Make of this what you will.) Luckily I was able to simply copy the directories from /var/lib/mysql on the old server to the appropriate directory on the new server. In related news, the guy who wrote “FoF” has made noises about a new release.
2. My files: There’s an entire subdirectory called “files” on this site which contains various and sundry images, videos, sounds and other miscellany. These files tend to be large enough to make the weekly site archive a bit cumbersome, so I deliberately exclude that subdirectory. Imagine my horror when I realized that I’d failed to migrate that subdirectory, and I’d asked Infinity Internet to dial down the old box hours beforehand! Luckily they hadn’t gotten to it yet, and I retrieved all of the files. Whew!
3. My son’s email: His account gets a fair bit of spam for some reason, so I set him up with the same mail filtering rig that I use on mine. This was all well and good until, as I set things up on the new server, I simply copied my mail filter configuration file into his home directory… without editing it appropriately. Yes, the mail server has been trying to filter his email into my mailbox for the last few days. (Due to file permissions, this is generally impossible.) This is now resolved, and mail is being delivered as I write this. Sorry, Spud!

It could’ve been a lot worse. Now I just need to finish adding things to the backups (like email, which I wasn’t doing before for some reason, but is now part of the nightly process) and automating the off-site backup process. Then, maybe, I can relax a bit.

I hope.