Re: [CentOS] cloning a server

2011-01-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/21/2011 03:43 AM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: The current version of anaconda supports that, but to the best of my recollection, the version used in RHEL 5 did/does not. Your recollection is wrong, I have never done a CentOS install except for the first couple when I was learning without

Re: [CentOS] cloning a server

2011-01-21 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/20/2011 07:52 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: Over and over again I see this reco and it makes no sense? If you have access to updates whether they be yours locally cached or remote, you should add a repo line in your ks and install updates from the start. It's faster/cleaner and just plain

Re: [CentOS] cloning a server

2011-01-21 Thread Joseph L. Casale
The current version of anaconda supports that, but to the best of my recollection, the version used in RHEL 5 did/does not. Your recollection is wrong, I have never done a CentOS install except for the first couple when I was learning without it... ___

[CentOS] cloning a server

2011-01-20 Thread PA
Hi, I have a centos 5 (current) mail server that I have compiled dovecot/postfix and installed some packages like mysql etc. These packages have been configured and changed to my liking. How can I now save all this and install it on another server without having to do all the work of compiling

Re: [CentOS] cloning a server

2011-01-20 Thread Corey A Johnson
PA wrote: Hi, I have a centos 5 (current) mail server that I have compiled dovecot/postfix and installed some packages like mysql etc. These packages have been configured and changed to my liking. How can I now save all this and install it on another server without having to do all the

Re: [CentOS] cloning a server

2011-01-20 Thread PA
, January 20, 2011 3:50 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] cloning a server PA wrote: Hi, I have a centos 5 (current) mail server that I have compiled dovecot/postfix and installed some packages like mysql etc. These packages have been configured and changed to my liking. How can I now

Re: [CentOS] cloning a server

2011-01-20 Thread Les Mikesell
On 1/20/2011 2:47 PM, PA wrote: Hi, I have a centos 5 (current) mail server that I have compiled dovecot/postfix and installed some packages like mysql etc. These packages have been configured and changed to my liking. How can I now save all this and install it on another server without having

Re: [CentOS] cloning a server

2011-01-20 Thread Mike McCarty
PA wrote: I guess what I was asking for is to take a already configured server and put it on multiple CD's DVD's and then use that to install on another server. Reading between the lines, ISTM that you don't have a verified means to do backups. If you can't do what you want, then you don't

Re: [CentOS] cloning a server

2011-01-20 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I guess what I was asking for is to take a already configured server and put it on multiple CD's DVD's and then use that to install on another server. Given that that will take some leg work, I accomplish the same thing by making a long %post section in a kickstart that runs various sed commands

Re: [CentOS] cloning a server

2011-01-20 Thread Les Mikesell
On 1/20/2011 2:57 PM, PA wrote: I guess what I was asking for is to take a already configured server and put it on multiple CD's DVD's and then use that to install on another server. Clonezilla has an option to save an image, then turn it into a bootable iso that will come up and install

Re: [CentOS] cloning a server

2011-01-20 Thread Hakan Koseoglu
Hi Paul, On 20 January 2011 20:47, PA ra...@meganet.net wrote: Hi, I have a centos 5 (current) mail server that I have compiled dovecot/postfix and installed some packages like mysql etc. These packages have been configured and changed to my liking. How can I now save all this and install it

Re: [CentOS] cloning a server

2011-01-20 Thread Spiro Harvey
Basically I want to clone this server and make it easy to install on another similar hardware server without having to install centos and then manually installing/configuring dovecot/postfix/mysql etc. Not sure if I can create a bootable ISO that will install on new servers or what my options

Re: [CentOS] cloning a server

2011-01-20 Thread Joseph L. Casale
You can have kickststart run a yum update so each box will have the latest updates as at install time. Over and over again I see this reco and it makes no sense? If you have access to updates whether they be yours locally cached or remote, you should add a repo line in your ks and install updates

Re: [CentOS] cloning a server

2011-01-20 Thread Paul A
I was looking into this, creating my own rpms and using kickstart. Thanks for all the info guys. Paul Spiro Harvey sp...@knossos.net.nz wrote: Basically I want to clone this server and make it easy to install on another similar hardware server without having to install centos and then

[CentOS] Cloning Centos server with RSync - what to exclude?

2009-10-08 Thread Bob p...@nle
Hi all, I have a few CentOS servers that I want to mirror live, to be standby spares. The spare machines could be either a different machine (with a different motherboard), or a VM in Vmware server. I've used rsync in the past, which works well for doing it while the machine is live.