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I could not find a way to get into "true" single-user mode on the
old Linode, so I did these things:<br>
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<li>Log in to console via Lish.</li>
<li>Run "init S" to set run level to single-user.</li>
<li>Run the appropriate rc.d scripts to stop all the services
(e-mail, MySQL, httpd, etc.)</li>
<li>Did a level 0 dump of the filesystem to a VM on my home
system.</li>
<li>Verified that the level 0 dump could be completely extracted
on my home system.</li>
<li>Wrote the level 0 dump (split into 2 gigabyte segments) to a
USB flash drive.</li>
<li>Deleted the old Linode.</li>
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Upon deleting the Linode, a credit of $5.34 was applied to our
account.<br>
<br>
I will probably also write the segments of the dump file out to
DVD-Rs as well, which we can physically store somewhere, and which I
assume should be readable for at least 10 years (my confidence is
not high that a USB flash drive would remain readable for that
long).<br>
<br>
--Pat.<br>
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