Re: [CentOS] Making a clone of an LVM-based EL5 install

2013-03-20 Thread xrx
Hi Ben, Off-list as Antonio had the same message, but I would HIGHLY recommend CloneZilla; it would only back up the used portion of the drive unlike dd (which would save you a lot of time), and it hasn't failed me yet in 5 years. I recommend the alternative-stable release; it has more

Re: [CentOS] Making a clone of an LVM-based EL5 install

2013-03-19 Thread Mike Burger
Mondo? http://www.mondorescue.org -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org It's always suicide-mission this, save-the-planet that. No one ever just stops by to say 'hi' anymore. --Colonel Jack O'Neill, SG1 Does anybody here have any idea how to make an exact copy of a drive that has LVM

Re: [CentOS] Making a clone of an LVM-based EL5 install

2013-03-19 Thread Antonio da Silva Martins Junior
- Lists li...@benjamindsmith.com escreveu: De: Lists li...@benjamindsmith.com Para: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Enviadas: Segunda-feira, 18 de Março de 2013 19:36:41 (GMT-0300) Auto-Detected Assunto: [CentOS] Making a clone of an LVM-based EL5 install Does anybody here have

Re: [CentOS] Making a clone of an LVM-based EL5 install

2013-03-19 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 03/18/2013 03:36 PM, Lists wrote: -) When booting from the newly imaged drive, it starts the boot just fine but quits at: Activating logical volumes Volume group VolGroup00 not found The only reason that I can think of that would cause this is an initrd

Re: [CentOS] Making a clone of an LVM-based EL5 install

2013-03-19 Thread m . roth
Gordon Messmer wrote: On 03/18/2013 03:36 PM, Lists wrote: -) When booting from the newly imaged drive, it starts the boot just fine but quits at: Activating logical volumes Volume group VolGroup00 not found The only reason that I can think of that would

Re: [CentOS] Making a clone of an LVM-based EL5 install

2013-03-19 Thread Lists
Thanks! Your reply in conjunction with a google search that found the below website and resolved this completely! http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/CreateNewInitrd The final line being something like mkinitrd --with sata_nv initrd-2.6.18-194.32.1.el5.img 2.6.18-194.32.1.el5 -Ben On

[CentOS] Making a clone of an LVM-based EL5 install

2013-03-18 Thread Lists
Does anybody here have any idea how to make an exact copy of a drive that has LVM partitions? I'm having trouble using dd to do this for an EL5 server. We're trying to diagnose a software problem of some kind and would like an exact, perfect copy of the software running so that we can see