On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Stan Hoeppner <s...@hardwarefreak.com>wrote:
> hadi motamedi put forth on 1/12/2010 4:53 AM: > > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Javier Barroso <javibarr...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > >> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:23 AM, hadi motamedi <motamed...@gmail.com> > >> wrote: > >>> Dear All > >>> Can you please confirm if the following scenario works for making my > >> client > >>> and server as identical ? > >>> My local(source) Debian server @192.168.0.2 > >>> My remote Debian client @192.168.0.70 > >>> On the local system : > >>> #df -m > >>> Filesystem Mounted on > >>> /dev/hda3 / > >>> /dev/hda1 /boot > >>> tmpfs /dev/shm > >>> On the local system , issue the followings to make client and server as > >>> identical : > >>> #dump -0uvf - /dev/hda3 | ssh r...@192.168.0.70 -c "restore -rf - /" > >>> #dump -0uvf - /dev/hda1 | ssh r...@192.168.0.70 -c "restore -rf - > /boot" > >>> #dump -0uvf - /dev/shm | ssh r...@192.168.0.70 -c "restore -rf - > /tmpfs" > >>> Can you please confirm if my understanding is right or not? > >> > >> If you want a block device copy, I would boot with a live cd (or from > >> network), and then start a ssh server and dump partitions with cat: > >> > >> cat /dev/hda | ssh r...@client "cat > /dev/hda" > >> > >> In an running system I doubt you can use dump in such case, but maybe > >> I am wrong, of course. > >> > >> Regards, > >> > >> > >> -- > >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > >> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > >> listmas...@lists.debian.org > >> > >> > > Thank you for your reply . Can you please let me know doing the same way > as > > your procedure will make the server & client the same ? Please be > informed > > that I don't have some of the application packages that are being > installed > > on my server . To this end , I want to make my server and client the same > > but without the need to have that application packages at hand . > > I don't think we understand what you want. Tell us what you are wanting to > accomplish, what your goal is. Maybe then we can help you. From what I've > seen > thus far, it doesn't sound like copying entire partitions from one machine > to > another is what you should really be doing. All that will do is exactly > clone > the disk of the server onto the client. That will break many things, not > first > of which you'll have two computers on the same subnet with the same IP > address > and hostname. > > -- > Stan > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > > Thank you for your reply . Please be informed that I have an Debian server with Asterisk pbx & DECT application package being pre-installed . As Debian OS & Asterisk pbx can be freely downloaded from the Internet , and with respect to the un-availability of the DECT application package at now , I want to build another identical machine for developing laboratory tests . Can you please let me know how this can be accomplished in my case ?
