Re: [CentOS] How to dump/restore a CentOS 7 system

2019-09-26 Thread Nikolaos Milas
On 25/9/2019 7:31 μ.μ., Xinhuan Zheng wrote: I guess it is very common for administrative purpose, to dump and restore a CentOS 7 system. I usually use dump/restore commands. However, I’m having trouble to handle installing bootloader and creating initramfs for C7 system. Does anyone know a

Re: [CentOS] How to dump/restore a CentOS 7 system

2019-09-25 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Wednesday, September 25, 2019 12:03 PM -0700 John Pierce wrote: Problem with rsync clones, they are asynchronous each file is copied separately so if the system is live and making changes, for instance a database server, the copy is not coherent. If you use LVM (CentOS default), you

Re: [CentOS] How to dump/restore a CentOS 7 system

2019-09-25 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Wednesday, September 25, 2019 5:31 PM + Xinhuan Zheng wrote: I'm having trouble to handle installing bootloader and creating initramfs for C7 system. Does anyone know a good document source that details those procedure? This hasn't been addressed yet. After restoring the partition

Re: [CentOS] How to dump/restore a CentOS 7 system

2019-09-25 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 04:31:06PM +, Xinhuan Zheng wrote: > I guess it is very common for administrative purpose, to dump and > restore a CentOS 7 system. I usually use dump/restore > commands. However, I’m having trouble to handle installing > bootloader and creating initramfs for C7 system.

Re: [CentOS] How to dump/restore a CentOS 7 system

2019-09-25 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 25/09/2019 à 18:31, Xinhuan Zheng a écrit : > I guess it is very common for administrative purpose, to dump and > restore a CentOS 7 system. I usually use dump/restore commands. > However, I’m having trouble to handle installing bootloader and > creating initramfs for C7 system. Does anyone

Re: [CentOS] How to dump/restore a CentOS 7 system

2019-09-25 Thread John Pierce
On Wed, Sep 25, 2019, 10:20 AM mark wrote: > > Someone mentioned commercial software - I've cloned systems, esp. compute > nodes in a cluster - with rsync. Problem with rsync clones, they are asynchronous each file is copied separately so if the system is live and making changes, for instance

Re: [CentOS] How to dump/restore a CentOS 7 system

2019-09-25 Thread mark
Valeri Galtsev wrote: > On 2019-09-25 11:31, Xinhuan Zheng wrote: >> >> I guess it is very common for administrative purpose, to dump and >> restore a CentOS 7 system. > > Though I can not answer OP's question, I have question of my own. > > Is this really routine (often) task for Linux sysadmins?

Re: [CentOS] How to dump/restore a CentOS 7 system

2019-09-25 Thread Styma, Robert (Nokia - US/Phoenix)
> Hello All, > > I guess it is very common for administrative purpose, to dump and restore a > CentOS 7 system. I usually use dump/restore commands. However, I’m having > trouble to handle installing bootloader and creating initramfs for C7 system. > Does anyone know a good document source that

Re: [CentOS] How to dump/restore a CentOS 7 system

2019-09-25 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Wed, 25 Sep 2019, Valeri Galtsev wrote: I guess it is very common for administrative purpose, to dump and restore a CentOS 7 system. Though I can not answer OP's question, I have question of my own. Is this really routine (often) task for Linux sysadmins? I used something like that to

Re: [CentOS] How to dump/restore a CentOS 7 system

2019-09-25 Thread Ron Loftin
On Wed, 2019-09-25 at 11:46 -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > On 2019-09-25 11:31, Xinhuan Zheng wrote: > > > > Hello All, > > > > I guess it is very common for administrative purpose, to dump and > > restore a CentOS 7 system. > Though I can not answer OP's question, I have question of my own.

Re: [CentOS] How to dump/restore a CentOS 7 system

2019-09-25 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On 2019-09-25 11:31, Xinhuan Zheng wrote: Hello All, I guess it is very common for administrative purpose, to dump and restore a CentOS 7 system. Though I can not answer OP's question, I have question of my own. Is this really routine (often) task for Linux sysadmins? I used something

[CentOS] How to dump/restore a CentOS 7 system

2019-09-25 Thread Xinhuan Zheng
Hello All, I guess it is very common for administrative purpose, to dump and restore a CentOS 7 system. I usually use dump/restore commands. However, I’m having trouble to handle installing bootloader and creating initramfs for C7 system. Does anyone know a good document source that details