> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Javier Barroso <
javibarroso@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:23 AM, hadi motamedi <
motamedi24@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Dear All
>>> Can you please confirm if the following scenario works for making my
>> client
>>> and server as identical ?
>>> My local(source) Debian server @
192.168.0.2
>>> My remote Debian 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@192.168.0.70 -c "restore -rf - /"
>>> #dump -0uvf - /dev/hda1 | ssh
root@192.168.0.70 -c "restore -rf - /boot"
>>> #dump -0uvf - /dev/shm | ssh
root@192.168.0.70 -c "restore -rf - /tmpfs"
>>> Can you please confirm if my understanding is right or not?
>>
>> If you want a block device copy, I would boot with a live cd (or from
>> network), and then start a ssh server and dump partitions with cat:
>>
>> cat /dev/hda | ssh root@client "cat > /dev/hda"
>>
>> In an running system I doubt you can use dump in such case, but maybe
>> I am wrong, of course.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
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> Thank you for your reply . Can you please let me know doing the same way as
> your procedure will make the server & client the same ? Please be informed
> that I don't have some of the application packages that are being installed
> on my server . To this end , I want to make my server and client the same
> but without the need to have that application packages at hand .