On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 11:59 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin
centos.ad...@gmail.com wrote:
On 7/11/12, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote:
Hours? This should happen in the time it takes to transfer a
directory listing and read through it unless you used --ignore-times
in the arguments. If you
On 7/9/12, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote:
One thing that helps is to break it up into separate runs, at least
per-filesystem and perhaps some of the larger subdirectories.
Depending on the circumstances, you might be able to do an initial run
ahead of time when speed doesn't matter
On 7/10/12, aurfalien aurfal...@gmail.com wrote:
I do dump/restores fir this sort of thing.
Thanks for this, I didn't know there was such a command until now!
But it looks like it should work for me since bulk of the data are
usually in /home which is a separate fs/mount usually. I can always
On 07/09/12 11:39 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
On 7/10/12, aurfalien aurfal...@gmail.com wrote:
I do dump/restores fir this sort of thing.
Thanks for this, I didn't know there was such a command until now!
But it looks like it should work for me since bulk of the data are
usually in /home
On 7/10/12, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote:
dump should not be used on mounted file systems, except / in single user.
Aha, thanks for the warning!
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On 07/10/12 12:06 AM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
On 7/10/12, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote:
dump should not be used on mounted file systems, except / in single user.
Aha, thanks for the warning!
IF you're using LVM, you can take a file system snapshot, and dump the
snapshot,
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 1:36 AM, Emmanuel Noobadmin
centos.ad...@gmail.com wrote:
On 7/9/12, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote:
One thing that helps is to break it up into separate runs, at least
per-filesystem and perhaps some of the larger subdirectories.
Depending on the
On 7/11/12, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote:
Hours? This should happen in the time it takes to transfer a
directory listing and read through it unless you used --ignore-times
in the arguments. If you have many millions of files or not enough
RAM to hold the list I suppose it could
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 can send you that!
Yes, please!
On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 12:34 AM, Emmanuel Noobadmin
centos.ad...@gmail.com wrote:
On 7/9/12, Micky mickylmar...@gmail.com 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
On Jul 8, 2012, at 10:34 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
On 7/9/12, Micky mickylmar...@gmail.com 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
aurfalien wrote:
On Jul 8, 2012, at 10:34 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
On 7/9/12, Micky mickylmar...@gmail.com 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
On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 09:00 -0700, aurfalien wrote:
On Jul 8, 2012, at 10:34 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
On 7/9/12, Micky mickylmar...@gmail.com 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
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 lesmikes...@gmail.comwrote:
On
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 here to
On Jul 8, 2012, at 6:57 PM, Phil Savoie psavoie1...@rogers.com 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
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
On 07/08/2012 10:14 PM, Joseph Spenner wrote:
On Jul 8, 2012, at 6:57 PM, Phil Savoiepsavoie1...@rogers.com 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
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
On 7/9/12, Micky mickylmar...@gmail.com 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.
On 7/9/12, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com 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
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. Good
Subject: Re: [CentOS] Best way to duplicate a live Centos 5 server?
To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 11:21 AM,
Cal Sawyer ca...@blue-bolt.com wrote:
ReaR has suddenly become very interesting to me, probably explaining why
it utterly fails to work properly
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Cal Sawyer ca...@blue-bolt.com wrote:
You're right - documentation is pretty dire. Guess i'm not alone in
hating doing it.
Yes, I really, really wish the stuff they are doing was documented,
somewhere, anywhere. Not just how to use the program itself which
From: Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [CentOS] Best way to duplicate a live Centos 5 server?
To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Scott Silva ssi...@sgvwater.com wrote:
Am I missing something glaringly obvious here, or is the only way
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Cal Sawyer ca...@blue-bolt.com wrote:
ReaR has suddenly become very interesting to me, probably explaining why
it utterly fails to work properly (for me).I'm using 1.13 to pull a
USB-based recovery image, but there's an error in the
On 6/14/12, Smithies, Russell russell.smith...@agresearch.co.nz wrote:
How about using one of the backup tools to image the server?
We use Symantec System Recovery and image all the disks. We then have the
option of restoring to different hardware (physical or virtual) which works
very well.
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 2:32 AM, Emmanuel Noobadmin
centos.ad...@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/14/12, Smithies, Russell russell.smith...@agresearch.co.nz wrote:
How about using one of the backup tools to image the server?
We use Symantec System Recovery and image all the disks. We then have the
option
On 08/06/2012 17:33, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
I've got a CentOS 5 server that I want to migrate over into a
virtualized instance.
The problem is I need to minimize downtime so was trying to figure out
a way to live clone the original.
Initially, I thought I could do this via exporting an
I'm using KVM so didn't have the tool.
While Les' suggestion looked like it was going to be pretty useful for
a variety of backup/restore situations, I didn't know if I had the
time to go through the docs and get things working in time.
So in the end I went with the repeated rSync method Scott
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Subject: Re: [CentOS] Best way to duplicate a live
I've got a CentOS 5 server that I want to migrate over into a
virtualized instance.
The problem is I need to minimize downtime so was trying to figure out
a way to live clone the original.
Initially, I thought I could do this via exporting an iSCSI target
from the virtual host, create a MD raid 1
on 6/8/2012 9:33 AM Emmanuel Noobadmin spake the following:
I've got a CentOS 5 server that I want to migrate over into a
virtualized instance.
The problem is I need to minimize downtime so was trying to figure out
a way to live clone the original.
Initially, I thought I could do this via
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Scott Silva ssi...@sgvwater.com wrote:
Am I missing something glaringly obvious here, or is the only way I'm
going be able to migrate is to shutdown the C5 server for a few hours
while duping the old drives? Would greatly appreciate any pointers how
best to do
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