Re: [CentOS] Backup and reinstall a CentOS server

2008-09-03 Thread Marco Fretz
admin wrote: > I believe that if /boot is on RAID1, that md partition has to be on one > of the first two disks (eg hda, hdb)? > > Is there any problem with having /boot on a RAID1 partition across 4 > disks as follows? > > /boot/ (LVM) > hdaRAID1RAID5 > hdbRAID1RAID5 > hd

Re: [CentOS] Backup and reinstall a CentOS server

2008-09-02 Thread admin
Yes, the /boot partition can be md raid. But it can't be LVM. We're using md raid for all server that have no hardware raid controllers. GRUB can be installed on both drives at the same time, no problem. Good idea and I think it should be no performance problem. But use LVM! Don't do md raid f

Re: [CentOS] Backup and reinstall a CentOS server

2008-09-02 Thread Sergej Kandyla
Marco Fretz wrote: If you want to copy the whole server, use cpio. We use this to convert phys servers to virtual. find / | cpio -o -Hnewc | ssh -c blowfish "cpio -u -i -m -d -Hnewc" Also you could use dump\restore utilites mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1 cd /mnt/hdb1 dump -0uan -f - /boot | re

Re: [CentOS] Backup and reinstall a CentOS server

2008-09-02 Thread Marco Fretz
Jussi Hirvi wrote: > This may not be directly useful to you. > > As a general strategy, I have been thinking of making / and other important > partitions (if any) raid1 at system install - even when there is no second > disk. Someone just wrote that even the /boot partition can be raid1. Yes, the

Re: [CentOS] Backup and reinstall a CentOS server

2008-09-02 Thread Marco Fretz
josh donovan wrote: > I've got a CentOS server that crashes due to a bad hard disk. I have got a > spare disk and need to format and reinstall CentOS from the SERVER CD. Backup > and reinstall is a major PITA because of some of the customisations that I've > done e.g. the DNS Server is set to lo

Re: [CentOS] Backup and reinstall a CentOS server

2008-09-02 Thread Jussi Hirvi
josh donovan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribio (2.9.2008 13:42) > I've got a CentOS server that crashes due to a bad hard disk. I have got a > spare disk and need to format and reinstall CentOS from the SERVER CD. Backup > and reinstall is a major PITA because of some of the customisations that I've > d

[CentOS] Backup and reinstall a CentOS server

2008-09-02 Thread josh donovan
I've got a CentOS server that crashes due to a bad hard disk. I have got a spare disk and need to format and reinstall CentOS from the SERVER CD. Backup and reinstall is a major PITA because of some of the customisations that I've done e.g. the DNS Server is set to log queries (the default does