Rainer Duffner wrote: > Kevin Thorpe schrieb: >> I was just wondering what recommendations you have on migrating a >> CentOS 5 install between servers? >> >> I've done similar in the past by setting up a minimal install in the >> new server, use tar to copy over the old install and reboot. I was >> thinking of rsync this time. >> >> Is that an acceptable thing to do or have I missed something important? >> > > > You can only sensibly do that using a live-CD on the 2nd server. > Because, last time I looked, if you overwrote "important" libraries > that were in use at the time of overwriting, the server would just crash. > At least, that's what happened with my backup-software back then. > > With a live-CD, you could also just pipe "dd" through netcat.... I must have been lucky and got away with it before. Live-CD sounds like the way to go. First time I've migrated a production server where I can't put the new drives in the old box to do the copy.