[H-GEN] Cloning Linux System

[Kelvin Heng]

jason,

I totally agree with you. For best practise, I guess one would boot up using 
Linux CD into Single user mode and do a "dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb"

but then, I am facing this mission impossible.... my customer says that the 
server cannot be shutdown.

anyway, i have spoken to my customer to ask for setting up a new server and 
coping the individual applications over. **still in the progress of 
discussion**

haha!!!!

Challenging mission for me :p

thanks for everyone's help.... I really appreciate...

Keep in touch!

Regards,
Kelvin Heng
Have A Nice Day!




>From: Jason Parker-Burlingham <jasonp at panix.com>
>To: general at lists.humbug.org.au
>Subject: Re: [H-GEN] Cloning Linux System
>Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 11:12:00 -0400
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>On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 08:34:24PM +1000, Mark Suter wrote:
>
> >     ## Quiesce the system
> >     for daemon in apache cron squid sendmail samba mysql ; do 
>/etc/init.d/$daemon stop ; done
>
>Curious.  Why not just take the system to single-user mode wherein
>you're assured that no random processes will be running?  In fact,
>absent any unusual circumstances, there's no reason to boot multi-user
>after inserting the new disk.
>
>I also prefer to mount all the partitions I'll copy read-only, if
>possible, to be absolutely sure nothing will sneak up on me.
>
>(And don't talk to me about the time I forgot to check the copy worked
>properly, and was left with d--------- permissions on most directories
>under /var.)
>
>jason
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