Re: taroon] Re: clone a linux system over the network

[R P Herrold <herrold owlriver com>]

On Mon, 9 May 2005, Tim Edwards wrote:

> > In the past, to migrate a Linux system from a server to a new one with
> > HD of the same size, I shut down the servers, booted a Linux live CD
> > (Knoppix) on them and used 'dd' and 'netcat' to clone the system over
> > the network: that worked fine, but with two cons:
> > - You cannot resize the partitions: if the new server has a bigger
> > disk, you cannot enlarge the original partition to use the additional
> > space.
> >
> > Do you know any better way to clone the system over the network that
> > will fix the above problems?

rsync and ssh - makes solving these issues trivial -- complete 
write up at:
  http://www.owlriver.com/tips/rsync-cookbook/

-- Russ Herrold