[CentOS] Cloning Centos server with RSync - what to exclude?

Hi all, I have a few CentOS servers that I want to mirror live, to be standby spares. The "spare" machines could be either a different machine (with a different motherboard), or a VM in Vmware server. I've used rsync in the past, which works well for doing it while the machine is live. Howev

[CentOS] Net-SNMP interfaces out of order

Hello Centos People, I have a CentOS 5.3 box that had a total of 5 ethernet cards in it. It functions to share an internet connection with 4 different subnets. All works fine, except I'm noticing that my MRTG traffic graphs are wrong. Further digging with snmpwalk reveal that the order of th

Re: [CentOS] Router for SOHO network - hardware considerations

I am looking for something similar to this thread.. Is there a way to make a small CentOS distro that is bootable and runnable from only a USB memory stick? It would need to be able to have files modified, but I wouldn't want the USB stick to die prematurely due to a ton of writes... Bob __