Gabriel;

This looks like a good clone script, though it is
specific to the layout of a specific drive.  Have 
you used it successfully?

One thing you may consider is a different way to
prepare for these situations.  One way would be to
use a motherboard that has on-board RAID.  They 
are commonly available and can do RAID 0+1 with
inexpensive IDE drives.  The 0+1 is mirroring
and striping for redundancy and performance.  A
server will continue running if a hard disk fails.

Another way to handle these situations is a regular
backup.  Backups aren't fun, but they are an important
part of server management - especially where user
files are concerned.  A good open source solution
is Amanda (http://www.amanda.org).  It is a backup
program that performs automated, scheduled backups
of computers over the network.  By default, it backs
up to tape drives, but it can be configured to back up
to disk.  It uses "dump" and "gnu-tar" to perform full
and incremental backups.

As for your other questions, here's some answers
for Red Hat systems:

Change server name:

    Use the "hostname" command to change it now
    Edit /etc/sysconfig/network to change it permanently

Change server IP address: Run "setup", change "Network"


Tom


>Message: 18
>From: "gabriel lopez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Script to Clone hda. Am i right?
>
>    It does has to do with LTSP. Maybe my mistake was not to mention that i 
>am talking about the server? hard disk. I am asking to more experinced LTSP 
>users to correct or improve this script to clone the serves hard drive since 
>all the computers deal with only that hard drive (all the eggs in one 
>basket).
>Last week i had a hard disk crash and y was lucky to have a clone of it to 
>restore my system.
>Also, i has post an imail asking for help on how to change server.name and 
>ip address of a LTSP server since i am about to install a second server in 
>the same network and that server is a clone of the one i already have. I did 
>not has to do the instalation again.


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  Pondus Solutions, Inc.  Red Hat Certified Engineer



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