Aniruddha wrote: > I wonder what the best way is to move a (non mission-critical) Debian > server installation to a new server. Rsync, clonezilla, tar, mondo, > dpkg-selections? With Gentoo I used to tar root, unpack it on the new > server, adjust config files and reinstall grub.I wonder what the > proper way in Debian is. Thanks in advance!
There isn't one canonically correct answer. There are many different ways to do it and different people will have different favorite methods. I like booting the new machine with a live cdrom and then using rsync to clone the old system onto the new system's disk over the network. Then install grub and boot the new system. If I want to set up disk mirroring then I do that first by using the debian-installer to do the work first so that it is ready to go and then do the rsync on top of it. At other times I will move the new disks onto the old system, mount them and do the copy locally, then move them back into the new machine and boot it. Bob
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