2009/5/7 Manjunath V <[email protected]>: > > I have a situation like this. > > one machine running with certain applications. Now need to migrate > them to another hardware. > > we plan to install same version of OS on other hardware and rsync the > files from current app server to future app server. > > But we may in need of some system wide files also. > > So decided to rsync completely at / > > and also decided to omit /boot, /dev, /proc /media and /mnt folders.
This won't work, since you'll lose the files in /dev and /boot. Which means your device files and the kernel itself will not be present. Two options that can work are: a) rsync the entire /, and later manually deal with the configuration problems that will arise. You'll mainly need to ensure that drivers for the new hardware are loaded. Your distribution might automatically do most of this. However, there's no guarantee, and you might possibly end up with a very messy system. b) Do a fresh install of Linux on the new hardware and then rsync only your application data files. This would be the recommended method. Vikas -- Engineer - Z Research http://gluster.com/ -- Engineer - Z Research http://gluster.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylug?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
