[CentOS] Help! i want to clone my Centos machine to another box..

Thu Oct 22 11:34:01 UTC 2009
RoLaNd RoLaNd <r_o_l_a_n_d at hotmail.com>

Hello,

thanks for your prompt reply..
i was leaving that option as a last resort...
the problem is that this machine is a production machine 
so if i rsync, i need to turn off the services in order to copy files or else ill have permission denied errors...

any other way?


i;ll start the proccess of creating a fresh instalation today though i dunno how to do the followign:

1. backing up my mysql databases  is it enough to cp /var/lib/mysql and /user/lib/mysql or i have to export them? and if thats the case how can i export?
2. anyway of copying user permissions and passwords? or i have to create them all over again ?





> Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:49:21 -0400
> From: gebser at mousecar.com
> To: centos at centos.org
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Help! i want to clone my Centos machine to another	box..
> 
> 
> On 10/22/2009 04:06 AM RoLaNd RoLaNd wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > i've spent the last week trying to find something that will clone my
> > existing Centos server to a more powerful box.
> > i've used clonezilla though that resulted in a complete failure..
> > 
> > can anyone please guide me in the right direction?
> > all i want to do is to clone my entire server and all of it's
> > directories to a more powerful server so i start using it instead..
> > i dont want to get rid of the current server as i want both of them to
> > run in parallel with the same backed up services/data on each of them..
> > 
> > 
> > can anyone please help! im honestly desperate!!
> > 
> > 
> > best,
> > 
> > Roland
> 
> Since the destination machine is "more powerful", the hardware is likely
> different, so cloning per se isn't an option.  Instead, you should do a
> fresh install of the same version on the new (destination) box, then
> copy the data over from the weaker to the destination machine.
> 
> There are a variety of options for copying the data.  Since it sounds
> like there's some pressure at the moment, the best way for you now is
> going to be the method you're most familiar with.  Do you have good,
> recent backups of the source system?  If so, you could restore that
> backup to the destination machine.  Otherwise (if your two machines are
> both on the same network), you could use tar or rsync or yet other
> utilities.
> 
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