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On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:18:56 +0000 (UTC), James wrote: |
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> I've been on a journey to migrate many servers (firewalls and dns) |
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> to Compact Flash (CF) drives to improve reliability, |
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Bear in mind the limited write lifetime of flash memory. Don't put /var |
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or /tmp on such a card if you can avoid it. |
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http://linitx.com/viewproduct.php?prodid=10448 |
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> Issue 4. Cloning or Duplicating. |
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> As many of you know, installations can be quite time consuming, |
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> and challenging on old PCs. So what I intend to do is take |
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> and currently running machine and stream the contents to |
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> another machine with a CF burner or pull the CF card from |
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> a machine that is in good shape but shutdown and duplicate it. |
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Why not copy the contents of a card to a hard disk somewhere? That way |
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you don't have to disturb a running machine to make a copy. |
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> 4A. Best method to duplicate the CF card live while the system |
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> is running. |
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Don't. |
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> DD, cpio, scp (example syntax) in a step by step)? |
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You could dd the card to a file and use the same file every time you need |
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a new card. |
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> 4B. What is the minimal amount of data/files that need to be edited |
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> bot build a similar but unique machine. |
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> 1. IP address (edit conf.d/net). |
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> 2. Name (edit) conf.d/hostname). |
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Both of these can be handled by DHCP. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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File not found. Should I fake it? (Y/N) |