Migrating an OVH Dedicated Server to AnubizHost Bare Metal
Dedicated server migration is heavier than a VPS move - more data, RAID configurations, and often physical-only quirks like IPMI bindings or custom kernels. This guide focuses on the OVH Eco, Rise, Infrastructure, and Scale lines and how to land cleanly on an AnubizHost offshore bare metal node in Romania, Iceland, or Finland.
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Choose Your Target Hardware Profile
Match the OVH hardware spec to the AnubizHost catalogue before you touch any data. OVH Rise-1 (Xeon E-2386G, 32GB, NVMe) maps cleanly to a Romania mid-tier dedicated. OVH Advance/Scale class with EPYC silicon maps to AnubizHost EPYC dedicated tiers in Romania or Iceland. If you ran software RAID-10 across four disks, ensure the target also has four equivalent disks and not a hardware controller you cannot manage.
Open a pre-sales ticket if you need a specific CPU generation or NIC capability. The team can quote a custom build, particularly for storage-heavy workloads where you want HDD plus NVMe cache.
Snapshot and Image the OVH Source
If your OVH server boots from an OS template, the simplest export is a full filesystem-level rsync as described in our VPS migration guide. For block-level cloning, boot the source into the OVH rescue system, then push images over SSH:
dd if=/dev/sda bs=64M status=progress | \
ssh root@NEW_IP "dd of=/dev/sda bs=64M"Block-level dd is fast but copies free space too. For sparse filesystems, prefer partclone or per-partition rsync. Always verify boot before cutover by booting the target once and confirming it reaches a login prompt over IPMI/KVM.
Rebuild RAID and Bootloader on the Target
Software RAID does not survive a raw clone unless the disk paths match exactly. Easier path: install a fresh OS on the AnubizHost dedicated with the same partition scheme, then rsync userland data over the top. Reinstall GRUB on the new disk after rsync: grub-install /dev/sda && update-grub. For UEFI, mount the ESP and run grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi.
Validate the kernel command line and initramfs after the rsync. If you copied a kernel that expects different drivers (e.g. OVH custom kernel with no virtio bits), rebuild with update-initramfs -u -k all.
DNS Cutover for High-Traffic Sites
For multi-IP setups (load balancers, anycast pools), do a weighted DNS migration: 10% of records pointing to AnubizHost first, watch error rates for 30 minutes, then 50%, then 100%. Most monitoring tools (UptimeRobot, Grafana Cloud, Datadog) need their probes updated to hit both old and new hosts during the transition.
Re-issue SSL with certbot or use a Cloudflare origin certificate that does not need re-issuance per IP. Decommission the OVH server only after 7 days of clean logs and confirmed billing settlement.
Why Move Dedicated Workloads Offshore
OVH dedicated customers often cite a few triggers: account-level suspension after a single abuse complaint, mandatory commitment renewals, and limited recourse on disputed invoices. AnubizHost is month-to-month, crypto-billed, and operates from jurisdictions where infrastructure-level takedowns require a court order from a local judge - a slow process by design.
Related reading: offshore dedicated overview, bulletproof hosting, Hetzner dedicated migration.
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