On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 7:05 AM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: > hadi motamedi wrote: > > Thank you for your reply . So the only way is cloning his hard disk . > > Am I right? > > I'd consider using dump to dump each ext3fs file system, then use > 'restore' to restore each of these dumps to appropriately sized file > systems for the new target system. the source system should be shut > down to single user mode, and all file systems umounted except / when > you do this. you can pipe the output of the dump to a ssh command > to write the dump to drive on a remote system. for instance... > > # dump -0uv /dev/sda2 | ssh root at target -c "restore -rf - /mnt/var" > > where /dev/sda2 is the /var file system on the local system, and > /mnt/var is the temporary home of the new disk, freshly formatted, with > the new /usr mounted as /mnt/usr > > of course, you repeat this for each file system on the source system. > See the man pages for dump and restore. Don't forget to install the > grub boot loader on this new disk, then move it to the target hardware, > which presumably is near identical to the original system. > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Thank you for your reply . Can you please help me on the real scenario , as the followings? My local(source) CentOS server @192.168.0.2 My remote CentOS client @192.168.0.70 On the local system : #df -m Filesystem Mounted on /dev/hda3 / /dev/hda1 /boot tmpfs /dev/shm On the local system , issue the followings to make client and server as identical : #dump -0uvf - /dev/hda3 | ssh root at 192.168.0.70 -c "restore -rf - /" #dump -0uvf - /dev/hda1 | ssh root at 192.168.0.70 -c "restore -rf - /boot" #dump -0uvf - /dev/shm | ssh root at 192.168.0.70 -c "restore -rf - /tmpfs" Can you please confirm if my understanding is right? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100112/e02947d6/attachment-0005.html>