Speaking of duplicating a server, if you have a mirror of the files on a server, and supposing you have a hard drive with the same partitions, what's involved in booting that duplicate? Should you prepare the hard drive by installing the same OS version, the copy all the files over the existing, or are there files to avoid overwriting if the server is to boot?
How does one replicate a server? I use Mondo to do it, so I don't know what it does. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Richard Wilson Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 7:49 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Total Backup of a system (RH6.1) Thanks Russ, I will definitely look into this. The Solaris sysadmins here have told me to take a look at rsync for managing some other Linux machines under my charge. They won't touch Linux or help me much, being sort of snobs and not considering Linux a true Unix operating system. Their loss my gain, I'm actually a NT guy quickly converting to Linux :-). > -----Original Message----- > From: R P Herrold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 11:02 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: Total Backup of a system (RH6.1) > > > On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Richard Wilson wrote: > > > Thank you for such a detailed explanation. > > Quite a few new concepts for me, it was not boring rather a little > > overwhelming but interesting stuff. > > <snip> > > Besides the machine is at a co-location two hours away from > > the office :-( > > Ummm -- The solution proposed is rather not suited to your > situation. Assuming you have root access, and fast > intervening bandwidth, you might prefer: > > rsync -av -e ssh --exclude /proc remote.machine.com:/. \ > /path/in/local/filesystem/with/lots/of/space/. > > which basically 'photocopies' the remote machine onto your > local filesystem, so you may inventory and experiment as you > wish. You man also then use a variant of the above command to > build an identical local physical replica of the remote host. > > -- Russ Herrold > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
