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Neil Bothwick wrote:
| Rsync may work, or it may complain that files have changed between
| building the list and copying them and you'd need to use -x to do the
| same as -l with tar. Either way, shut down as many services as possible
| during the
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:48:54 -0400, Hal Martin wrote:
You cannot use tar unless you create an exclude file, as it will copy
the contents of /dev and /sys, which means the entire contents of RAM,
and anything that is
Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but I had read that if you don't copy
the files in /dev, udev won't mount properly on the machine you're
cloning to and all hell will break lose. Also, iirc, I believe I
tarred a running machine (including /dev, excluding /sys) and the
clone was successful.
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 16:45:49 -0400, Dan Cowsill wrote:
Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but I had read that if you don't copy
the files in /dev, udev won't mount properly on the machine you're
cloning to and all hell will break lose.
There are two files you need in the dev directory of the root
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 16:45:49 -0400, Dan Cowsill wrote:
Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but I had read that if you don't copy
the files in /dev, udev won't mount properly on the machine you're
cloning to and all hell
Benyamin Dvoskin wrote:
It is a running gentoo system in this case
But it doesnt make a difference to me. I want to know generally.
anyway I will try what everyone wrote here and we'll see how it goes.
Thanks again.
Btw You can also do a
mount --bind / /mnt/something
and then you will
Benyamin Dvoskin wrote:
Hi All ,
I've been wondering how one can clone an entire gentoo system and copy
it to another physical machine , while the original system is still
running ( means , ghost , acronis and other tools that force me to
shutdown the system are not acceptable )
So ,
Hello
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 10:29:39PM +0300, Benyamin Dvoskin wrote:
I've been wondering how one can clone an entire gentoo system and copy it to
another physical machine , while the original system is still running (
means , ghost , acronis and other tools that force me to shutdown the
On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:48:54 -0400, Hal Martin wrote:
You cannot use tar unless you create an exclude file, as it will copy
the contents of /dev and /sys, which means the entire contents of RAM,
and anything that is currently being generated by your devices will be
copied as well.
Benyamin Dvoskin wrote:
Hi All ,
I've been wondering how one can clone an entire gentoo system and copy
it to another physical machine , while the original system is still
running ( means , ghost , acronis and other tools that force me to
shutdown the system are not acceptable )
So ,
It is a running gentoo system in this case
But it doesnt make a difference to me. I want to know generally.
anyway I will try what everyone wrote here and we'll see how it goes.
Thanks again.
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 11:40 PM, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Benyamin Dvoskin wrote:
Hi All ,
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