[mdlug] Moving to a new box

[Aaron Kulkis]

Wojtak, Greg wrote:
> 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
> 


If the hardware is identical (or at least the disks the same size),
just use dd to copy the the drive image from one computer to the other.

> 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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