Hello,
I've got a CentOS 4.4 box that it's drive is dying. This machine has
a
lot of customizations done to it, custom configs and the like and i'd rather
not have to do a full reinstall or manually copy over settings files. What
i'm wondering is is there a way i can set up the new disk, make it bootable,
then transfer the entire system over to it? I would then pull out the
failing drive set the new one to be master, and go on with things?
Recently i've had to do this on a FreeBSD system for pretty much the
same reason, all data and settings went over fine and i'd like to have the
same success here.
Thanks.
Dave.
Dave wrote:> Hello, > I've got a CentOS 4.4 box that it's drive is dying. This machine > has a lot of customizations done to it, custom configs and the like > and i'd rather not have to do a full reinstall or manually copy over > settings files. What i'm wondering is is there a way i can set up the > new disk, make it bootable, then transfer the entire system over to > it? I would then pull out the failing drive set the new one to be > master, and go on with things? > Recently i've had to do this on a FreeBSD system for pretty much > the same reason, all data and settings went over fine and i'd like to > have the same success here. > Thanks. > Dave.There's a howto here: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/index.html I haven't used it for several years but I think it will still work. -- UNDOCUMENTED ALIEN -- "If they haven't followed the law to get here, they are by definition 'illegal'. It's like saying a drug dealer is an 'undocumented pharmacist.'" -John Varga, Westfield, New Jersey -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070416/e89cb2c2/attachment-0004.html>
Dave spake the following on 4/16/2007 10:03 AM:> Hello, > I've got a CentOS 4.4 box that it's drive is dying. This machine has > a lot of customizations done to it, custom configs and the like and i'd > rather not have to do a full reinstall or manually copy over settings > files. What i'm wondering is is there a way i can set up the new disk, > make it bootable, then transfer the entire system over to it? I would > then pull out the failing drive set the new one to be master, and go on > with things? > Recently i've had to do this on a FreeBSD system for pretty much the > same reason, all data and settings went over fine and i'd like to have > the same success here. > Thanks. > Dave.I have done it in the past. It is much easier to do so from a rescue disk or the CentOS live cd, because copying from a system that is still running might not work the best. You can set up the partitioning on the new drive, and use your favorite poison to copy each partition. You can use rsync, cp -a, or tar, whichever you are comfortable with. If the drives are close in size, you can usually get away with dd, or G4L if you want something more visual. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!