Le Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 03:07:21PM +0000, rec.sea@btopenworld.com ecrit :
> We would like to mirror a remote server of ours on a local server through
> broadband (2Mb).
> We would like to mirror the whole server disk, including installation, /boot
> and so on, for carrying over local test installations before going live on
> the server.
> We did not find an easy way of doing it. Does anybody know about a good way?
> We are using Debian Woody plus some manually upgraded packages (from Sarge).
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- install sshd on the original server
- boot from a live CD (I recommand Knoppix)
- create your partitions as they are on the original server (for exemple
with cfdisk)
- Create the filesystems like on the original server (with mke2fs,
mk???fs, ...)
- create a mount point (for example : /mnt/server)
- mount the root partition on this (mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/server)
- create the mount points for every sub partition like on the original
server (look the original /etc/fstab file)
- manually mount every sub-filesystem on each directory
- run :
(ssh root@originalserver.domain.tld "(cd /; tar cjplf - )") | sudo (cd /mnt/server ; tar xvjplf -)
it should copy everything after asking you for the root password
- chroot on the copy : sudo chroot /mnt/server
- reinstall either lilo or grub :
# lilo -v
or
# grub-install /dev/hd??
- type exit to quit the chroot environement
- unmount every sub-partition under /mnt/server
- umount /mnt/server
- reboot without the CDROM
Fanfan
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[François Proust]
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