[ale] backup a running RH7.2 box

[Courtney Thomas]

I too run a RH7.2 box and it sounds like your cloned disk has the same
description in lilo.conf but.... it's NOT the same disk. 

So, if that's the case, you need to change the lilo.conf entry for the
cloned disk that will properly reflect the cloned disk's ACTUAL
description, rather than the mother disk's description.

HTH,

Courtney


On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 12:55, Sid Lane wrote:
> all,
> 
> for reasons I do not which to discuss I have a semi-pressing need to
> make as close a backup as possible of a running RH7.2 box.  I can
> shutdown as many services as needed but am somewhat afraid of
> rebooting (especially spinning down the drives since we have had
> fairly high failure rate with that model).
> 
> I have tried the following without success:
> 
> 1.  install an identical drive in another server
> 2.  fdisk to identical partitions as server to be cloned (S2BC)
> 3.  format filesystems with same type as S2BC
> 4.  shutdown as many services as possible on S2BC
> 5.  tar / on S2BC (tar cvzpf cloneme.tgz /)
> 6.  scp tarball to surrogate server
> 7.  untar tarball
> 8.  dd MBR from S2BC to surrogate drive
> 9.  install clone drive to identical chasis as S2BC
> 10.  kick the tire, light the fire...
> 
> it gets as far as "LI" (presumably of "LILO") and hangs...
> 
> can anyone tell me what the flaw(s) in my procedure is (/are) and how
> I might go about successfully accomplishing this?  again,  I would
> prefer not to reboot but would consider it as long as it did not
> require a power cycle (spinning down/up drives).
> 
> any help would be greatly appreciated...
> 
> thanks!
> 
> 
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