On Thursday, September 16, 2010 01:43:19 pm Timothy Murphy wrote:
Lamar Owen wrote:
When a server simply has to have minimal downtime, LVM is worth its LoC in
gold for this use.
What do you mean by no downtime?
What exactly do you do?
Is it documented anywhere?
Sorry for the delay; been
On 17/09/2010 22:52, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Timothy Murphy wrote:
Marcelo M. Garcia wrote:
I was thinking of copying the old root partition with
sudo cp -a -P /* /mnt/hd
I think the command rsync is a better approach for this task. It has
much more features, for example, you can exclude
Timothy Murphy wrote:
Timothy Murphy wrote:
Marcelo M. Garcia wrote:
I was thinking of copying the old root partition with
sudo cp -a -P /* /mnt/hd
I think the command rsync is a better approach for this task. It has
much more features, for example, you can exclude certain files.
Thanks
Timothy Murphy wrote:
Marcelo M. Garcia wrote:
I was thinking of copying the old root partition with
sudo cp -a -P /* /mnt/hd
I think the command rsync is a better approach for this task. It has
much more features, for example, you can exclude certain files.
Thanks for the suggestion.
On 9/17/2010 4:52 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
I was thinking of copying the old root partition with
sudo cp -a -P /* /mnt/hd
I think the command rsync is a better approach for this task. It has
much more features, for example, you can exclude certain files.
Thanks for the suggestion.
On Tuesday, September 14, 2010 01:42:05 pm Robert Heller wrote:
At Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:19:16 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org
wrote:
What about doing all with dd ... If you have the second disk installed in
the same machine you can do dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb ort you can use
Lamar Owen wrote:
But having done a few now I vastly prefer doing it online using LVM. No
downtime, and it just works, including resizing, as long as you are going
to a larger lv.
When a server simply has to have minimal downtime, LVM is worth its LoC in
gold for this use.
What do you
John R Pierce wrote on 09/14/2010 09:27 AM:
On 09/14/10 6:24 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
rsync -HPavxz --exclude /mnt /. /mnt/.
how does rsync handle links? not symlinks, but actual file links?
From man rsync:
-H, --hard-linkspreserve hard links
Phil
Is there a document with instructions for this?
I've had smartd warnings that a hard disk in my server is sick,
so I am installing a new drive (in addition to the old).
I was thinking of copying the old root partition with
sudo cp -a -P /* /mnt/hd
(after mounting the prospective new root
Timothy Murphy wrote:
I was thinking of copying the old root partition with
sudo cp -a -P /* /mnt/hd
(after mounting the prospective new root partition).
Then I'd have to modify the new /etc/fstab .
Hi
I think the command rsync is a better approach for this task. It has
much more
On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 13:16 +0100, Marcelo M. Garcia wrote:
Timothy Murphy wrote:
I was thinking of copying the old root partition with
sudo cp -a -P /* /mnt/hd
(after mounting the prospective new root partition).
Then I'd have to modify the new /etc/fstab .
Hi
I think the
On 09/14/10 5:12 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Is there a document with instructions for this?
I've had smartd warnings that a hard disk in my server is sick,
so I am installing a new drive (in addition to the old).
I was thinking of copying the old root partition with
sudo cp -a -P /*
John R Pierce wrote:
Is there a document with instructions for this?
I've had smartd warnings that a hard disk in my server is sick,
so I am installing a new drive (in addition to the old).
I generally use dump ... | restore ... to clone a complete e2fs/e3fs
volume. it copies
Marcelo M. Garcia wrote:
I was thinking of copying the old root partition with
sudo cp -a -P /* /mnt/hd
I think the command rsync is a better approach for this task. It has
much more features, for example, you can exclude certain files.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Could you offer a precise
At Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:12:46 +0100 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org
wrote:
Is there a document with instructions for this?
I've had smartd warnings that a hard disk in my server is sick,
so I am installing a new drive (in addition to the old).
I was thinking of copying the old
kalinix wrote:
I think the command rsync is a better approach for this task. It has
much more features, for example, you can exclude certain files.
In offline mode is even better
How exactly?
This is my server, so if I stopped it
I would not have access from any other machine.
--
Timothy
On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 13:12 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Is there a document with instructions for this?
I've had smartd warnings that a hard disk in my server is sick,
so I am installing a new drive (in addition to the old).
I was thinking of copying the old root partition with
sudo
On 9/14/10 7:54 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
John R Pierce wrote:
Is there a document with instructions for this?
I've had smartd warnings that a hard disk in my server is sick,
so I am installing a new drive (in addition to the old).
I generally use dump ... | restore ... to clone a
At Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:54:38 +0100 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org
wrote:
John R Pierce wrote:
Is there a document with instructions for this?
I've had smartd warnings that a hard disk in my server is sick,
so I am installing a new drive (in addition to the old).
I generally
On 09/14/10 5:54 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
John R Pierce wrote:
Is there a document with instructions for this?
I've had smartd warnings that a hard disk in my server is sick,
so I am installing a new drive (in addition to the old).
I generally use dump ... | restore ... to clone a
Les Mikesell wrote:
On 9/14/10 7:54 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
John R Pierce wrote:
Is there a document with instructions for this?
I've had smartd warnings that a hard disk in my server is sick,
so I am installing a new drive (in addition to the old).
I generally use dump ... | restore ...
On 09/14/10 6:24 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
rsync -HPavxz --exclude /mnt /. /mnt/.
how does rsync handle links? not symlinks, but actual file links?
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On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 09:03:13AM -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
At Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:12:46 +0100 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org
wrote:
Is there a document with instructions for this?
I've had smartd warnings that a hard disk in my server is sick,
so I am installing a new
On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Could you offer a precise command for copying the system
from / to /mnt/hd , say?
Would one exclude /dev or /proc , for example?
I've not updated this in years nor for a 2.6 kernel and
grub, but the process is basically unchanged:
R P Herrold wrote:
On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Could you offer a precise command for copying the system
from / to /mnt/hd , say?
Would one exclude /dev or /proc , for example?
I've not updated this in years nor for a 2.6 kernel and
grub, but the process is basically
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote:
Is there a document with instructions for this?
I've had smartd warnings that a hard disk in my server is sick,
so I am installing a new drive (in addition to the old).
I was thinking of copying the old root partition
At Tue, 14 Sep 2010 09:39:07 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org
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On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 09:03:13AM -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
At Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:12:46 +0100 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org
wrote:
Is there a document with instructions for this?
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 09:53:42AM -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
At Tue, 14 Sep 2010 09:39:07 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org
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On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 09:03:13AM -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
At Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:12:46 +0100 CentOS mailing list
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On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Scott Robbins scot...@nyc.rr.com wrote:
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 09:03:13AM -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
At Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:12:46 +0100 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org
wrote:
Is there a document with instructions for this?
I've had smartd warnings
At Tue, 14 Sep 2010 12:13:53 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org
wrote:
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Scott Robbins scot...@nyc.rr.com wrote:
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 09:03:13AM -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
At Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:12:46 +0100 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org
What about doing all with dd ... If you have the second disk installed in
the same machine you can do dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb ort you can use
clonezilla is a live cd .
Gabe
On 9/14/10 8:12 AM, Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote:
Is there a document with instructions for this?
I've
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Is there a document with instructions for this?
I've had smartd warnings that a hard disk in my server is sick,
so I am installing a new drive (in addition to the old).
I was thinking of copying the old root partition with
sudo cp -a -P /*
Bill Campbell wrote:
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Is there a document with instructions for this?
I've had smartd warnings that a hard disk in my server is sick,
so I am installing a new drive (in addition to the old).
I was thinking of copying the old root partition with
At Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:19:16 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org
wrote:
What about doing all with dd ... If you have the second disk installed in
the same machine you can do dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb ort you can use
clonezilla is a live cd .
dd only works IFF (!) the new drive is
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote:
At Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:19:16 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org
wrote:
What about doing all with dd ... If you have the second disk installed in
the same machine you can do dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb ort you
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