On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 8:34 PM, Alan Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Everyone, > > Another not-quite-Rivendell related question here, but I know there are > some brilliant minds around here... > > I have a Rivendell stand-alone based on the appliance v2. I have a LOT of > work invested in this, and I would like to clone the hard drive(s). > > The problem is during installation, I set up the appliance on a software > Raid 1 array. > > I have googled, but have read mixed results on "cloning" Linux MD Raid. > > In my mind, it can't be that hard, but some suggest it can't be done with > the tools I have. > > The tools I have available to me are: > > Ghost 2003 (Dos boot floppy) > Acronis True Image WD Edition > Knoppix > > In my mind, if I do a "sector" copy, and copy one drive at a time, it > shouldn't matter if the cloning software can read the filesystem or not... > > Am I off base here? > > Thanks for any tips, > > -Alan > > PS I seem to think maybe dd (under Knoppix?) is the way to go, but since > I will be cloning to an identical drive, how can I be sure which one is > which? Having never used dd I don't want to destroy my work! > Hello, You might have a specific reason to clone that specific drive but my procedure will be (did this procedure once): 1. Install Rivendell on identical version (we call this machine_2) on a new machine 2. Back-up database from original Rivendell (we call this machine_1) and restore on machine 2 3. copy contents of /var/snd from machine_1 to machine_2 using scp or rsync 4. adjust settings in RDAdmin of machine_2 as appropriate Note: I build my Rivendell from source Hope this helps, Bruce > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev >
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