From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JgmYU-0005J4-Mf for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:54:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 254FCE0C19; Tue, 1 Apr 2008 19:54:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.177]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11A41E0C19 for ; Tue, 1 Apr 2008 19:54:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id w53so2984980pyg.25 for ; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:53:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=jVMs6Jqth/IEx2tmKPafbV2YlCGU8JR2Fzx8YmA5Bec=; b=cl8wvbu0vxn9vTHOe+XlpbHcLLgtnZPYvEUlbuSgryP1Df5k1eNGMq1DMpTYpPJjAZlH2Qo1tcGfvlI2s5UhzthKOiVihO217InKXUuA5ws1i/6rFuYhnEyxlq80zLVK6Bci6CNkGnE3eGcZM13Vd6NCZ1GA8Idz+0PREeB/Pxc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=SFVwgmZNTMfrS0+avJQGwfT7axinsmznF2WZAqBpQ2cl9+0MOxhBJ5TNon/k9xmMNHtb/mOsNmuYCpffMA4t5urpsx5Bzw2wxIA/RTokGvlB3XIn9An2Cq8/+nQKED14yuTfUCZygi+FexYK4VMiDzqlghmNGapemslQElG1QTY= Received: by 10.65.242.7 with SMTP id u7mr17710448qbr.59.1207079639726; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:53:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.100? ( [68.114.95.159]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id a5sm417211qbd.17.2008.04.01.12.53.58 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:53:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <47F292B2.2040000@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:53:22 -0400 From: Eric Martin User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Clone a running gentoo machine onto another machine References: <47EFEEA6.9080402@gmail.com> <20080330210511.3421cd0d@loonquawl.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20080330210511.3421cd0d@loonquawl.digimed.co.uk> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 70675242-0bed-4004-b20d-4cae37ba5195 X-Archives-Hash: 1fe22607f8e005c2cab9bd78d126c011 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Neil Bothwick wrote: | Rsync may work, or it may complain that files have changed between | building the list and copying them and you'd need to use -x to do the | same as -l with tar. Either way, shut down as many services as possible | during the copy, particularly anything that uses databases. If you are using lvm you could also make a snapshot of your running system (after stopping databases etc) and then start the services and just grab stuff off of the snapshot. That way you're getting a snapshot in time as opposed to a very large window of data. - -- Eric Martin PGP fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH8pKxdheOldgSlQgRAhO3AJ9+rZB8E/DSZ4vGe0+I1MdXf9IaYgCgqRNm /W8YU6zPMbuMjH5EMo9Rc28= =AvYH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list