<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 8:37 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:me@tdiehl.org" target="_blank">me@tdiehl.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Wed, 20 Aug 2014, Gilberto Nunes wrote:<br>
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Do you get it??<br>
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Yes, I got it working. Turned out it was much simpler than I was making it.<br>
I did not need clonezilla or anything else except rsync.<br>
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What I did was a minimal install of the same os the original machine was<br>
running, and then rsync the original machine over top of the new VM, excluding<br>
things like fstab, inittab, and other things that are specific to the hardware.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>+1</div><div>I've done this exact process myself, but neglected to mention it to you.</div><div><br></div><div>Can't beat installing off a local mirror and then rsyncing a few small differences (or much less compared the entire install) between the two machines! ;-)</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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This allows me to keep the original machine on line until just before I am<br>
ready to kill it off. When I am ready to kill off the old machine and start<br>
the new one I stop all externally accessible services, change the network config<br>
to reflect the way I want it in production, do 1 last rsync, reboot and I am live.<br>
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Typical down time has been less than 15 minutes.<br>
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It takes a little tinkering to figure out the stuff that should be excluded but<br>
once I got that it went well.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That's the fun of it, eh?</div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br>---~~.~~---<br>Mike<br>// SilverTip257 //
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