[buug] clone a production server

[jwithers]

Norton ghost if you don't want to do the whole dd dance. This is pretty
much what it does. There is something called ghost for linux as well,
but I haven't used it, so if it eats your hard drive, you didn't hear
about it from me.

You wanna get fancy, raid 1 the whole thing.
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO-5.html#ss5.1 Which by
definition will take care of your problem.

Or, you could do it all manually with dd and parted, as has been
suggested a couple of times I think.

jpw


On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 11:15 -0700, John de la Garza wrote:
> A week or so ago I was asking how to use dd to back up a complete  
> server.  I think I should of stated what I needed and got feedback on  
> how to best do it instead of wanting to use dd.
> 
> I have a production server running a mod_perl web app that talks to  
> Oracle.  There are tons of symbolic and hard links and the  
> documentation on how to build it is far from complete.  I plan to  
> reverse engineer it and use the current docs to one day (soon)  
> understand it and be able to build it and clean up some of the  
> clutter on it.  The problem is, that if this box where to go down,  
> we'd be hosed, so I want to copy it ASAP.
> 
> What would be the best way to make a backup of the entire box as it  
> is?  Is this even really doable?  I'd like to be able to make a hard  
> drive that I could just switch with the one in the current server and  
> have it work fine.
> 
> The box isn't local, but at a data center.   I can drive down there  
> if I need to and I can shut it down, if need be.
> 
> 
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