Re: Need advice on cloning Debian server

2012-05-30 Thread CamaleĆ³n
On Tue, 29 May 2012 12:35:40 +0800, Joe Aquilina wrote: I am relatively new to Linux/Debian and need some advice on cloning a Debian system. Then I'd ask for someone with more experience can help you with this because cloning a full system on different hardware with the setup you describe is

Re: Need advice on cloning Debian server

2012-05-30 Thread Shane Johnson
I haven't actually done it, but you should be able to boot to a live CD initialize the raid and LVM and then add a removable HD to the VG. Create new LV's the same size as your existing ones but make sure you create them on the removable PV then use dd or similar to clone the LV's. Once cloned

Re: Need advice on cloning Debian server

2012-05-30 Thread Tom H
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Shane Johnson s...@rasmussenequipment.com wrote: I am sure where you have a working system you already know this, but for those who find this and want to put LVM on top of a raid with Grub2, make sure you create the raid with the .9 version of the metadata or

Re: Need advice on cloning Debian server

2012-05-29 Thread Joe
On Tue, 29 May 2012 12:35:40 +0800 Joe Aquilina rhadmi...@westnet.com.au wrote: My thought is that I should install Debian squeeze on to it and get it running with RAID LVM, with partitions, logical volumes etc. matching the original file server, and then use rsync to copy all the data

Need advice on cloning Debian server

2012-05-28 Thread Joe Aquilina
Hello all. I am relatively new to Linux/Debian and need some advice on cloning a Debian system. At work we have a Debian file server, running Squeeze, which needs to be cloned to new hardware and then the old machine will be retired. It is a file server for a small office, has 4 smallish