[mdlug] Moving to a new box

[Wojtak, Greg]

My favorite method of cloning servers when deploying several at a time is to
build one, then use dump on each filesystem.  Then, I bring those over to
the new box or bring the drives into the original, then use restore, make
appropriate IP and hostname changes, and bam!  Instant mini-me.  I¹ve found
this to be even less time-consuming than using Red Hat kickstart.

Just my $0.02.  I expect now that people will start informing me that even
the man pages for dump and restore say ³never use this program.²

Greg


On 12/7/06 7:47 PM, "jack freeman" <freemancomputer at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I am looking at moving my web server over to a new box but i want to keep all
> the settings that i have now. Is there a way to do this without reinstalling
> everything even if its all new hardware?
> 
> Running mandravia 10.x
> 
> Thanks
> Jack
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