On 10/24/07, Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com> wrote: > Hi > > I am playing with virtualization on centos 5. > I have an old redhat 7 system I still need so I want to virtualize it. > I found the old disk, installed in the virtual environment but found > I had done some additions WAY back. > I want to be sure my virtual system is exactly the same as the ACTUAL > system. > > Do I use cpio on the actual system to grab everything and then put that > back on the > virtual system? I'm more "tar" adept ! Here is the tar command : # cd /src # tar cf - . | ( cd /dst ; tar tvpf - ) This is just a try that display all file it will copy. Now I copy for real # tar cf - . | ( cd /dst ; tar xvpf - ) To copy through ssh on a remote machine # tar cf - . | ssh root at host "( cd /dst ; tar xvpf - )" bu scp is fine too To avoid copy of /proc and other anoying file system you can use --except ./proc --except ./sys ....... or better use -l to copy only /src and not other mounted filesystem then you have to copy /boot and other data partition the same way. cpio require you to use a filesysteme walker like find to generate the list of file you wan to copy. Something like : # find . | cpio ???? | (cd /dst ; cpio ??? ) > > What would the format of the command be to grab it and extract it? I > have never used cpio and dont > want to screw something up. > > Is there a better way? > > Jerry > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Alain Spineux aspineux gmail com May the sources be with you