Re: [CentOS] Best way to duplicate a live Centos 5 server?

2012-07-08 Thread Nikolaos Milas
On 9/7/2012 1:48 πμ, Micky wrote: > The best and traditional way that has been there for decades is an rsync > and then reinstallation of boot-loader. We are using mondorescue (mondoarchive and mondorestore). Works fine and supports many ways of archiving/restoring, LVM etc. I recommend it. Goo

Re: [CentOS] Best way to duplicate a live Centos 5 server?

2012-07-08 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 7/9/12, John R Pierce wrote: > On 07/08/12 7:14 PM, Joseph Spenner wrote: >> What is running on the server? You might be able to get away with a dd, >> to build a duplicate disk. This disk can be directly attached or on >> another server tunneled through ssh. > > or setup a drbd replica, wait

Re: [CentOS] Best way to duplicate a live Centos 5 server?

2012-07-08 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 7/9/12, Micky wrote: > The best and traditional way that has been there for decades is an rsync > and then reinstallation of boot-loader. > It works always if you know how it's done. The problem I found with rsync is that it is very slow when there are a lot of small files. Any idea how this c

Re: [CentOS] Best way to duplicate a live Centos 5 server?

2012-07-08 Thread John R Pierce
On 07/08/12 8:20 PM, Phil Savoie wrote: > Centos 5.8 and Centos 6.2 servers. A duplicate disk is not what I am > after as I cannot always replace with exact drives, i.e., same make, > model, size, etc. note that there's a lot of things where file by file, or even sector by sector, duplicates are

Re: [CentOS] Best way to duplicate a live Centos 5 server?

2012-07-08 Thread Phil Savoie
On 07/08/2012 10:14 PM, Joseph Spenner wrote: > > On Jul 8, 2012, at 6:57 PM, Phil Savoie wrote: > >> On 07/08/2012 06:48 PM, Micky wrote: >>> The best and traditional way that has been there for decades is an rsync >>> and then reinstallation of boot-loader. >>> It works always if you know how it

Re: [CentOS] Best way to duplicate a live Centos 5 server?

2012-07-08 Thread John R Pierce
On 07/08/12 7:14 PM, Joseph Spenner wrote: > What is running on the server? You might be able to get away with a dd, to > build a duplicate disk. This disk can be directly attached or on another > server tunneled through ssh. or setup a drbd replica, wait for it to replicate, then stop the re

Re: [CentOS] Best way to duplicate a live Centos 5 server?

2012-07-08 Thread Joseph Spenner
On Jul 8, 2012, at 6:57 PM, Phil Savoie wrote: > On 07/08/2012 06:48 PM, Micky wrote: >> The best and traditional way that has been there for decades is an rsync >> and then reinstallation of boot-loader. >> It works always if you know how it's done. >> >> If you need detailed instructions, I c

Re: [CentOS] Best way to duplicate a live Centos 5 server?

2012-07-08 Thread Phil Savoie
On 07/08/2012 06:48 PM, Micky wrote: > The best and traditional way that has been there for decades is an rsync > and then reinstallation of boot-loader. > It works always if you know how it's done. > > If you need detailed instructions, I can send you that! Yes, please! Could you either post her

Re: [CentOS] Best way to duplicate a live Centos 5 server?

2012-07-08 Thread Micky
The best and traditional way that has been there for decades is an rsync and then reinstallation of boot-loader. It works always if you know how it's done. If you need detailed instructions, I can send you that! On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 1

[CentOS] QT menu decorations missing on Centos 6

2012-07-08 Thread Frank Cox
See this screenshot for an example of what I get when I run qtconfig-qt4 on Centos 6 and select a menu: http://www.melvilletheatre.com/screenshot-qt-example.png If the list is long, the menu extends from the top to the bottom of my physical screen, with a little arrow at the top and the bottom wh

Re: [CentOS] XEN or KVM - performance/stability/security?

2012-07-08 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 01:50:30PM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 06/04/2012 11:36 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > > > Xen PV has been rock solid for me :) > > Maybe, if we ignore the fact that you seem to be familiar with the > problem of xenconsoled failing and preventing guests from booting.