One way to create a "mostly" identical server (in the sense that it has the same packages installed as the original) is to do dpkg --get-selections > mydebs on the original server, and dpkg --setselections < mydebs on the cloned server. (Or, if you are extra clever, pipe this over the network :P ). This, obviously, requires no shutdown.
Mike On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 11:41:47AM -0300, Jordi S . Bunster wrote: > > I've got a Debian box running a lot of services, so there's lots of > disk activity. I was thinking about cloning it (the server) to a > redundant one, identical to the other. Just wondering .... Is there a > way to do this in a sane way while the system is running? Or should I > just power off and use dd? >
