RE: full mirror of a potato server?

["Philip Iezzi" <debian@iezzi.ch>]

> Let me explain: If you're using the term "server" in the sense of "a
> computer I have complete access to that we have assigned to the
> function of an (FTP | HTTP | NAME) Server" then yes.

I'm talking about a "computer I have complete access to that we have
assigned to the function of an FTP,HTTP Server"!
I got root access to that server and I can put the mirror exactly next
to it so I'm not forced to run all this through a secure connection.
Running it through ssh would be still better, though.

We are just planning to mirror that whole server to test a complete
upgrade potato-->woody. If mirroring works fine, we would like to use
the mirrored box as a second server in case of a crash / 'emergency'.
rsync looks pretty powerful. I'm just not sure if it's smart to rsync
the kernel and everything else to a machine with different hardware.

thanks for your help
philip