> Good Afternoon, > > I have been tasked with migrating a machine sitting on RHEL 5.6 off a > rackspace cloud server to a local machine. In order to cut costs we would Whatever this "cloud" thing is, it can mean almost anything these days :) > like to utilize Centos 5.6. I have done quite a bit of research and have > as > of yet been able to find a clear answer on how to accomplish this. I have > installed Centos 5.6 locally and am in a time crunch to complete this. I > am > hoping that someone can explain how to achieve this requirement. > > I did create a .tar file of the / partition of the RHEL remote server and > rsync'd it locally. Hopefully I can just copy certain files from this .tar > file to the new machine. Any and all assistance is tremendously > appreciated. What I usually end up is to install the new system, then create rpm lists on the source system and use yum/rpm on the target to make it have the same packages. After that I apply all config changes (diff is really my friend here) and rsync the data over. I did a lot of migrations recently and I found it to be the best way with just the simple tools: rpm, yum, diff, bash, rsync Simon