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From: Eric Martin <freak4uxxx@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Clone a running gentoo machine onto another machine
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:54:02
Message-Id: 47F292B2.2040000@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Clone a running gentoo machine onto another machine by Neil Bothwick
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4 Neil Bothwick wrote:
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6 | Rsync may work, or it may complain that files have changed between
7 | building the list and copying them and you'd need to use -x to do the
8 | same as -l with tar. Either way, shut down as many services as possible
9 | during the copy, particularly anything that uses databases.
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11 If you are using lvm you could also make a snapshot of your running
12 system (after stopping databases etc) and then start the services and
13 just grab stuff off of the snapshot. That way you're getting a snapshot
14 in time as opposed to a very large window of data.
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16 Eric Martin
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