Good Afternoon,
I have been tasked with migrating a machine sitting on RHEL 5.6 off a rackspace cloud server to a local machine. In order to cut costs we would
Whatever this "cloud" thing is, it can mean almost anything these days :)
like to utilize Centos 5.6. I have done quite a bit of research and have as of yet been able to find a clear answer on how to accomplish this. I have installed Centos 5.6 locally and am in a time crunch to complete this. I am hoping that someone can explain how to achieve this requirement.
I did create a .tar file of the / partition of the RHEL remote server and rsync'd it locally. Hopefully I can just copy certain files from this .tar file to the new machine. Any and all assistance is tremendously appreciated.
What I usually end up is to install the new system, then create rpm lists on the source system and use yum/rpm on the target to make it have the same packages. After that I apply all config changes (diff is really my friend here) and rsync the data over.
I did a lot of migrations recently and I found it to be the best way with just the simple tools: rpm, yum, diff, bash, rsync
Simon