hadi motamedi put forth on 1/12/2010 4:53 AM: > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Javier Barroso <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:23 AM, hadi motamedi <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> Dear All >>> Can you please confirm if the following scenario works for making my >> client >>> and server as identical ? >>> My local(source) Debian server @192.168.0.2 >>> My remote Debian client @192.168.0.70 >>> On the local system : >>> #df -m >>> Filesystem Mounted on >>> /dev/hda3 / >>> /dev/hda1 /boot >>> tmpfs /dev/shm >>> On the local system , issue the followings to make client and server as >>> identical : >>> #dump -0uvf - /dev/hda3 | ssh [email protected] -c "restore -rf - /" >>> #dump -0uvf - /dev/hda1 | ssh [email protected] -c "restore -rf - /boot" >>> #dump -0uvf - /dev/shm | ssh [email protected] -c "restore -rf - /tmpfs" >>> Can you please confirm if my understanding is right or not? >> >> If you want a block device copy, I would boot with a live cd (or from >> network), and then start a ssh server and dump partitions with cat: >> >> cat /dev/hda | ssh r...@client "cat > /dev/hda" >> >> In an running system I doubt you can use dump in such case, but maybe >> I am wrong, of course. >> >> Regards, >> >> >> -- >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] >> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact >> [email protected] >> >> > Thank you for your reply . Can you please let me know doing the same way as > your procedure will make the server & client the same ? Please be informed > that I don't have some of the application packages that are being installed > on my server . To this end , I want to make my server and client the same > but without the need to have that application packages at hand .
I don't think we understand what you want. Tell us what you are wanting to accomplish, what your goal is. Maybe then we can help you. From what I've seen thus far, it doesn't sound like copying entire partitions from one machine to another is what you should really be doing. All that will do is exactly clone the disk of the server onto the client. That will break many things, not first of which you'll have two computers on the same subnet with the same IP address and hostname. -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
