Alibaba Cloud International Newbie Package 1.0 expires, record the entire migration process to Newbie Package 2.0

About 2 weeks ago, I received a notification email from Alibaba Cloud International. The Alibaba Cloud International Newbie Package 1.0 will expire on January 10th. After expiration, you will not be able to renew at the preferential price, so you need to renew it below. Complete the migration from 1.0 to 2.0 before the renewal period. However, the disk of Alibaba Cloud International Newbie Package 2.0 is only 25GB, which is smaller than the 40GB of 1.0, so some problems were encountered during the migration process. This article will make a record.

1. Preparation

Alibaba Cloud International official website: alibabacloud.com

Already have:

Goal: Migrate all data on 1.0 to version 2.0.

2. Custom image migration method

If the hard disk capacity of your new machine is higher than that of the old machine, you can directly use the old machine to create a custom image, and then use this custom image to replace the system disk on the new machine. It is very convenient and related. The tutorial is also very detailed in the Alibaba Cloud International Help Center:

3. Migration after disk reduction

Since the two Alibaba Cloud International Newbie Packages I have are both entry-level versions, the entry-level version 1.0 provides 40GB storage, and the entry-level version 2.0 only has 25GB storage, so the system disk cannot be directly replaced through custom images. This method achieves a full disk copy of the data. If a full disk copy is to be performed, the disk must be reduced in size first.

The prerequisites for scaling down need to be: the usage virtual host on the old machine < the storage virtual host on the new machine.

Alibaba Cloud disk shrink tutorial can refer to: https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/zh/doc-detail/66372.htm

Specific steps include:

It took me about half an hour to migrate 16GB of data with the migration tool, and the rest was very fast. After replacing the system disk, I can say goodbye to Alibaba Cloud International Newbie Package 1.0.

Finally, remember to cancel the automatic renewal of Alibaba Cloud International Newbie Package 1.0, otherwise it will no longer be at the preferential price of US$3.5/month after expiration. The way to cancel the renewal is to set it in the renewal management to not renew when it expires:

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