Re: What is the best way to migrate a server to new hardware?

[Aniruddha <mailingdotlist@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote:
> I like booting the new machine with a live cdrom and then using rsync
> to clone the old system onto the new system's disk over the network.
> Then install grub and boot the new system.


> At other times I will move the new disks onto the old system, mount
> them and do the copy locally, then move them back into the new machine
> and boot it.

Thank you for you help. Which rsync command do you use? And how you
restore grub? With the live cd? Or manually with a random livecd?
Which command do you use to copy them them locally? I'm curious how
other users solve this :)