[K12OSN] Server Clone

Bert Rolston bert.rolston at clear.net.nz
Tue Jun 1 20:11:08 UTC 2004


Hi Jim,

Did you do a 
1) drive to drive
OR
2) partition to partition clone?

I know this can make a difference. 

What version of Ghost do you have? 
My version won't handle EXT3 but does handle EXT2. :-(

What about a Knoppix boot, NFS mount the existing drives and DD onto th
new server? 
Can DD do that?

Just some thoughts.

Cheers,
Bert


On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 01:55, Jim Kronebusch wrote:
> [SNIP]
> > Ghost will do it.
> 
> I booted both machines with a network Ghost boot floppy, connected them
> with a cross-over cable, then cloned eache SCSI RAID individually.
> First I cloned the 9GB mirrored partition over the new 9GB mirrored
> partition then cloned the 205GB Raid 5 to the new 54GB Raid 5 (the sizes
> are different but the amount of data on the 205GB is under 5GB
> currently, this drive only holds /home).  Everything cloned without
> errors then booted boots up.  I get a little text about GRUB loading and
> that is it, it is just hung.
> 
> Any ideas?  I tried to boot the machine with Linux Rescue but it got to
> the point of mounting the drives under sysimage and failed to mount
> them.  I thought since Les said it may fix other problems it might fix
> this, no luck.
> 
> I am working on setting up Mondo on the master server and going to try
> to figure that out.
> 
> 
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