Re: Best way to migrate a server?

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Rainer Duffner wrote:
Kevin Thorpe schrieb:
I was just wondering what recommendations you have on migrating a CentOS 5 install between servers?

I've done similar in the past by setting up a minimal install in the new server, use tar to copy over the old install and reboot. I was thinking of rsync this time.

Is that an acceptable thing to do or have I missed something important?



You can only sensibly do that using a live-CD on the 2nd server.
Because, last time I looked, if you overwrote "important" libraries that were in use at the time of overwriting, the server would just crash.
At least, that's what happened with my backup-software back then.

With a live-CD, you could also just pipe "dd" through netcat....

I must have been lucky and got away with it before. Live-CD sounds like the way to go. First time I've migrated a production server where I can't put the new drives in the old box to do the copy.
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