Re: [gentoo-user] Server migration

2008-08-13 Thread Fernando Antunes
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Matthew Daubenspeck [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: In short, I am working on a server migration going from a physical box to a virtual system. I pretty much need everything (software-wise) identical. What is the best way to do that? I was looking at outputting the

[gentoo-user] Server migration

2008-08-11 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
In short, I am working on a server migration going from a physical box to a virtual system. I pretty much need everything (software-wise) identical. What is the best way to do that? I was looking at outputting the data from equery to a file, then emerging everything in that file. Is there an

Re: [gentoo-user] Server migration

2008-08-11 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 11:31 -0400, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: In short, I am working on a server migration going from a physical box to a virtual system. I pretty much need everything (software-wise) identical. What is the best way to do that? I was looking at outputting the data from equery

Re: [gentoo-user] Server migration

2008-08-11 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 10:44:43AM -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote: The easiest thing to do would be to migrate system, P2V, as is. I dont' know what virtual server software you are using, but there are tools to do this (plus with Linux it's easy enough doing manually). Aside from that if you

Re: [gentoo-user] Server migration

2008-08-11 Thread Matt Nordhoff
Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: I am migrating from an amd64 based colo server to a linode system that is not amd64, so I don't think most of the automated methods would work, although I could be wrong... Linode? Like http://www.linode.com/? If so, they're starting to support 64-bit (e.g. the