Robert Heller wrote:
>> Is there a standard way of copying a working system
>> from one machine to another with different partitions?
> After copying the system, you will likely need to remake the initrd on
> the target system. Oh, you will need to edit /etc/modprobe.conf:
> different SATA drive
Les Mikesell wrote:
> That's what clonezilla is all about. And it is released frequently on
> both debian and ubuntu (the 'alternative' version) live bases so it has
> pretty good hardware handling.
I did look at clonezilla, briefly, but had to discard the idea,
as my setup violated two of its r
On Thu, 5 May 2011, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On 5/5/2011 4:22 PM, Dag Wieers wrote:
>
>> and it would automatically create a bootable image with your system's
>> layout and the backuppc software/configuration, and even the necessary
>> commands to automatically recover your system when doing:
>
> I d
On 5/5/2011 4:22 PM, Dag Wieers wrote:
>
>> What I've really always wanted in this respect is something that would
>> work with backuppc [...]
>
> Well, I've become very fond of rbme as of lately, but since ReaR supports
> rsync out of the box, you don't need a separate backup method for it.
>
> Bu
On Thu, 5 May 2011, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On 5/5/2011 3:37 PM, Dag Wieers wrote:
>
>> I can recommend ReaR (Relax and Recover) for migrations and cloning
>> systems. I have been working wit the Relax and Recover project for the
>> past few months together with a colleague and it now covers a lot o
On 5/5/2011 3:37 PM, Dag Wieers wrote:
>
> I can recommend ReaR (Relax and Recover) for migrations and cloning
> systems. I have been working wit the Relax and Recover project for the
> past few months together with a colleague and it now covers a lot of
> situations:
>
>- HWRAID (SmartArray),
On Thu, 5 May 2011, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On 5/5/2011 11:11 AM, Lamar Owen wrote:
>>
I do dd imaging quite frequently, and as long as everything is LBA48
capable and setup, [snippage] using dd booted from rescue or
live media of the OS that's installed...
>>
>>> Clonezil
On 5/5/2011 11:11 AM, Lamar Owen wrote:
>
>>> I do dd imaging quite frequently, and as long as everything is LBA48
>>> capable and setup, [snippage] using dd booted from rescue or live
>>> media of the OS that's installed...
>
>> Clonezilla-live is a handy, faster way to do this.
>
> I'
--On Thursday, May 05, 2011 10:41:04 AM -0400 Robert Heller
wrote:
>
> Hmmm Using dump & restore (or tar or rsync or cpio, etc.) would
> likely be a lot faster.
+1 for dump & restore. It's been around for years, is lightweight
(in terms of minimal dependencies), and is absolutely solid. I'v
On Thursday, May 05, 2011 11:35:01 AM Les Mikesell wrote:
> On 5/5/2011 9:37 AM, Lamar Owen wrote:
> > I do dd imaging quite frequently, and as long as everything is LBA48
> > capable and setup, [snippage] using dd booted from rescue or live
> > media of the OS that's installed...
> Cl
On 5/5/2011 10:36 AM, ken wrote:
>
> The most time-consuming part of the job was finding the particular
> command with the correct args that actually worked-- not the command or
> utility that "should" work or that "theoretically ought to" work-- but
> one which in fact *did* work. So if anyone ac
On 05/05/2011 10:41 AM Robert Heller wrote:
> At Thu, 05 May 2011 10:10:52 -0400 CentOS mailing list
> wrote:
>
>> On 05/05/2011 08:01 AM Brunner, Brian T. wrote:
>>> centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
At Thu, 05 May 2011 07:44:52 -0400 CentOS mailing list
wrote:
> On 05/05/20
On 5/5/2011 9:37 AM, Lamar Owen wrote:
>
>> Different block mappings will also give you grief.
>> .:. The drives must be identical manufacturer and model, down to the
>> firmware revision.
>> dd is not a backup tool in the general sense.
>
> I do dd imaging quite frequently, and as long as everythi
At Thu, 05 May 2011 10:10:52 -0400 CentOS mailing list
wrote:
>
> On 05/05/2011 08:01 AM Brunner, Brian T. wrote:
> > centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
> >> At Thu, 05 May 2011 07:44:52 -0400 CentOS mailing list
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> On 05/05/2011 07:13 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>
On Thursday, May 05, 2011 08:01:57 AM Brunner, Brian T. wrote:
> centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
> > At Thu, 05 May 2011 07:44:52 -0400 CentOS mailing list
> > Warning: dd is not a good choise if the source and desination
> > drives/partitions are *different* sizes.
> Different block mappings wil
On 05/05/2011 08:01 AM Brunner, Brian T. wrote:
> centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
>> At Thu, 05 May 2011 07:44:52 -0400 CentOS mailing list
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On 05/05/2011 07:13 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Is there a standard way of copying a working system
from one machine to another
On 5/5/11 6:13 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Is there a standard way of copying a working system
> from one machine to another with different partitions?
>
> I have two CentOS-5.6 machines, say A and B,
> and I thought I would copy / on sdb10 on machine A
> to an unused partition sda7 on machine B wi
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
> At Thu, 05 May 2011 07:44:52 -0400 CentOS mailing list
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 05/05/2011 07:13 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>>> Is there a standard way of copying a working system
>>> from one machine to another with different partitions?
>> You could also utili
At Thu, 05 May 2011 07:44:52 -0400 CentOS mailing list
wrote:
>
>
> On 05/05/2011 07:13 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> > Is there a standard way of copying a working system
> > from one machine to another with different partitions?
> You could also utilize cloning software, such as the client ver
On 05/05/2011 07:13 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Is there a standard way of copying a working system
> from one machine to another with different partitions?
You could also utilize cloning software, such as the client version of
drbl, clonezilla livecd.
You could also do a direct copy with dd ont
At Thu, 05 May 2011 12:13:18 +0100 CentOS mailing list
wrote:
>
> Is there a standard way of copying a working system
> from one machine to another with different partitions?
>
> I have two CentOS-5.6 machines, say A and B,
> and I thought I would copy / on sdb10 on machine A
> to an unused pa
Is there a standard way of copying a working system
from one machine to another with different partitions?
I have two CentOS-5.6 machines, say A and B,
and I thought I would copy / on sdb10 on machine A
to an unused partition sda7 on machine B with rsync.
I made the appropriate changes to /etc/fst
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