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 don't
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
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 driver,
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
At Thu, 05 May 2011 12:13:18 +0100 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org
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
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 onto
At Thu, 05 May 2011 07:44:52 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org
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
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
At Thu, 05 May 2011 07:44:52 -0400 CentOS mailing list
centos@centos.org 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
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 with
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
centos@centos.org 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 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 will also
At Thu, 05 May 2011 10:10:52 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org
wrote:
On 05/05/2011 08:01 AM Brunner, Brian T. wrote:
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
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centos@centos.org wrote:
On 05/05/2011 07:13 AM, Timothy Murphy
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 everything is
On 05/05/2011 10:41 AM Robert Heller wrote:
At Thu, 05 May 2011 10:10:52 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org
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
centos@centos.org wrote:
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...
--On Thursday, May 05, 2011 10:41:04 AM -0400 Robert Heller
hel...@deepsoft.com 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
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've recast my
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...
Clonezilla-live is a handy,
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 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
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.
But if
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