jludwig wrote:
On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 16:11, Dhananjay Makwana wrote:
Have a look at frisbee
http://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/papers/frisbee-usenix03-base.html
They have as part of it imagezip, imageunzip programs that you can use
to zip, unzip the whole hard disks.
We have successfully used it to prepare clone machines with larger
disks.
All the best,
-Jay
On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 16:00, WipeOut wrote:
Hi,
Been trying to work out the easiest way to move from one hard drive to
another and be able to change the size of the partitions..
I looked at dd but the disk geometry has to be the same so thats a problem..
I tried ghost but it had issues..
Basically I have two 40GB drives with two RAID 1 partitions (md0 and md1)..
md0 is / and md1 is an LVM PV with a number of LV's (/home /var /data
and SWAP) on it..
The only way I can think of to do it is to boot from one of the live CD
type distros and have one of the old drives and one of the new drives
connected and then partition the new drive, mount it and then copy the
data from one to the other.. Then change over to the other old drive
(the mirror) and the second new drive and do the same again..
This seems very time consuming, laborious and prone to error..
Is there any other way to clone Linux drives that will also allow me to
use drives with different geometry and hopfully be able to resize the
LVM partition to make use of the space??
Later..
If I understand what you want to do, then you could tar the files and
directories from root up and move them over as one big file.
Remember there are directories that could be reloaded S.A. /bin, /sbin
and then upgraded.
Or (on the existing system):
# cd /
# tar cvpP -x /dev -x /proc -f /dev/st0 *
And on the new system, install the the system and
# tar xvpPkf /dev/st0
It's clunky, but it works--assuming the new system is already bootable.
In any case I have found moving to 'new media' is always time intensive.
Yup. Sure is.
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