Re: [CentOS] Help! i want to clone my Centos machine to another box..

2009-10-26 Thread Matt
i've spent the last week trying to find something that will clone my existing Centos server to a more powerful box. i've used clonezilla though that resulted in a complete failure.. can anyone please guide me in the right direction? all i want to do is to clone my entire server and all of

Re: [CentOS] Help! i want to clone my Centos machine to another box..

2009-10-25 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 01:34:01PM +0200, RoLaNd RoLaNd wrote: Hello, thanks for your prompt reply.. i was leaving that option as a last resort... the problem is that this machine is a production machine so if i rsync, i need to turn off the services in order to copy files or

[CentOS] Help! i want to clone my Centos machine to another box..

2009-10-22 Thread RoLaNd RoLaNd
Hello all, i've spent the last week trying to find something that will clone my existing Centos server to a more powerful box. i've used clonezilla though that resulted in a complete failure.. can anyone please guide me in the right direction? all i want to do is to clone my entire server and

Re: [CentOS] Help! i want to clone my Centos machine to another box..

2009-10-22 Thread ken
On 10/22/2009 04:06 AM RoLaNd RoLaNd wrote: Hello all, i've spent the last week trying to find something that will clone my existing Centos server to a more powerful box. i've used clonezilla though that resulted in a complete failure.. can anyone please guide me in the right direction?

Re: [CentOS] Help! i want to clone my Centos machine to another box..

2009-10-22 Thread Alan McKay
We use Norton Ghost all the time. You sometimes have to jiggle drivers after it comes up - I'll leave that as an exercise to the reader :-) On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 4:06 AM, RoLaNd RoLaNd r_o_l_a_...@hotmail.com wrote: Hello all, i've spent the last week trying to find something that will

Re: [CentOS] Help! i want to clone my Centos machine to another box..

2009-10-22 Thread Mathieu Baudier
1. backing up my mysql databases  is it enough to cp /var/lib/mysql and /user/lib/mysql or i have to export them? and if thats the case how can i export? For MySQL backups I use the mysqldump utility, which dumps the data as pure SQL. This may not be the best option if you have a huge amount

Re: [CentOS] Help! i want to clone my Centos machine to another box..

2009-10-22 Thread Les Mikesell
RoLaNd RoLaNd wrote: thanks for your prompt reply.. i was leaving that option as a last resort... the problem is that this machine is a production machine so if i rsync, i need to turn off the services in order to copy files or else ill have permission denied errors... any other way?

Re: [CentOS] Help! i want to clone my Centos machine to another box..

2009-10-22 Thread R-Elists
roland, what i recently did was use this info and modified the backup-servers script slightly http://www.jms1.net/code/rsync-backup.shtml it was really simple to move a live centos4 from one machine to another after admin down services that would allow data to change on the final rsync pass.

Re: [CentOS] Help! i want to clone my Centos machine to another box..

2009-10-22 Thread DTS-Corp (Knowledgebase)
Acronis, with a little SALT and PEPPER may do the trick. However after running acronis you would have to do an OS Repair. Sorry, that is for windows. CentOS on the other hand should be able to CLUSTER. Why not try to cluster it instead On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:30 AM, R-Elists

Re: [CentOS] Help! i want to clone my Centos machine to another box..

2009-10-22 Thread Niki Kovacs
RoLaNd RoLaNd a écrit : Hello all, i've spent the last week trying to find something that will clone my existing Centos server to a more powerful box. If I had to clone a machine, I would. 1) Use G4U (Ghost 4 Unix) 2) Boot PartedMagic on the target machine and perform and eventual disk

Re: [CentOS] Help! i want to clone my Centos machine to another box..

2009-10-22 Thread Rob Townley
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 3:06 AM, RoLaNd RoLaNd r_o_l_a_...@hotmail.com wrote: Hello all, i've spent the last week trying to find something that will clone my existing Centos server to a more powerful box. i've used clonezilla though that resulted in a complete failure.. You used the