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Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Copy of Server

On May 12, 2005 11:38 pm, Greg Franks wrote:
> Alex at Avantel wrote:
> >Here's my idea so far (after installing FC3 on the other box);
> >
> >1) let rpm tell me which files I've changed on the production system
> >	- (rpm -V --all)
> >	- edit this list to remove files obviously not neede
>
> Ouch -- sounds painful..

It's all just bash scripts . . . look for the ones where there's a change, 
discard the rest.  Using scripts to catch the changes, the list of files (& 
directories) got whitled down to about 200 and then I manually deleted a few.  
tar that up and bring it over to a vanilla FC3 install - or at least that's 
the plan . . . first attempt wrecked my raid configuration (now that's an 
ouch!)

>
> mondo archive/restore will dump and restore from any filesystem to any
> other file system.  It will even create bootable cdroms/DVD's and allow
> you to partition away.  Beware -- the process can be slow if you use a
> lot of conpression!

Too much patching and fixing to get it all running right - prefer to do it up 
front.  Maybe that's the flaw in the plan . . . ?

>
> If you have 80G of data, this will take a fair amount of time.

Yes, I noticed that ! 

Alex
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