Re: [CentOS] Best way to duplicate a live Centos 5 server?

On 07/09/12 11:39 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:

On 7/10/12, aurfalien aurfalien@gmail.com wrote:

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I do dump/restores fir this sort of thing.

Thanks for this, I didn't know there was such a command until now! But it looks like it should work for me since bulk of the data are usually in /home which is a separate fs/mount usually. I can always resize the fs after transfer so I'll give this a try the next time I need to do a dup/migrate.

dump should not be used on mounted file systems, except / in single user.

restore can restore to any size file system of the same type (ext3, ext4) thats large enough to hold the files dumped.