On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:23 AM, hadi motamedi <motamed...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear All > Can you please confirm if the following scenario works for making my client > and server as identical ? > My local(source) Debian server @192.168.0.2 > My remote Debian client @192.168.0.70 > On the local system : > #df -m > Filesystem Mounted on > /dev/hda3 / > /dev/hda1 /boot > tmpfs /dev/shm > On the local system , issue the followings to make client and server as > identical : > #dump -0uvf - /dev/hda3 | ssh r...@192.168.0.70 -c "restore -rf - /" > #dump -0uvf - /dev/hda1 | ssh r...@192.168.0.70 -c "restore -rf - /boot" > #dump -0uvf - /dev/shm | ssh r...@192.168.0.70 -c "restore -rf - /tmpfs" > Can you please confirm if my understanding is right or not?
If you want a block device copy, I would boot with a live cd (or from network), and then start a ssh server and dump partitions with cat: cat /dev/hda | ssh r...@client "cat > /dev/hda" In an running system I doubt you can use dump in such case, but maybe I am wrong, of course. Regards, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org