 | | | taroon] Re: clone a linux system over the network | taroon] Re: clone a linux system over the network 2005-05-09 - By R P Herrold
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On Mon, 9 May 2005, Tim Edwards wrote:
>> In the past, to migrate a Linux system from a server to a new one with
>> HD of the same size, I shut down the servers, booted a Linux live CD
>> (Knoppix) on them and used 'dd' and 'netcat' to clone the system over
>> the network: that worked fine, but with two cons:
>> - You cannot resize the partitions: if the new server has a bigger
>> disk, you cannot enlarge the original partition to use the additional
>> space.
>>
>> Do you know any better way to clone the system over the network that
>> will fix the above problems?
rsync and ssh - makes solving these issues trivial -- complete
write up at:
http://www.owlriver.com/tips/rsync-cookbook/
-- Russ Herrold
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