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If you don't have a /boot then things will be more difficult but it
should be possible to accomplish it.

On 9/13/05, Sid Lane <jakes.dad at gmail.com> wrote:
> all,
>  
>  for reasons I do not which to discuss I have a semi-pressing need to make
> as close a backup as possible of a running RH7.2 box.  I can shutdown as
> many services as needed but am somewhat afraid of rebooting (especially
> spinning down the drives since we have had fairly high failure rate with
> that model).
>  
>  I have tried the following without success:
>  
>  1.  install an identical drive in another server
>  2.  fdisk to identical partitions as server to be cloned (S2BC)
>  3.  format filesystems with same type as S2BC
>  4.  shutdown as many services as possible on S2BC
>  5.  tar / on S2BC (tar cvzpf cloneme.tgz /)
>  6.  scp tarball to surrogate server
>  7.  untar tarball
>  8.  dd MBR from S2BC to surrogate drive
>  9.  install clone drive to identical chasis as S2BC
>  10.  kick the tire, light the fire...
>  
>  it gets as far as "LI" (presumably of "LILO") and hangs...
>  
>  can anyone tell me what the flaw(s) in my procedure is (/are) and how I
> might go about successfully accomplishing this?  again,  I would prefer not
> to reboot but would consider it as long as it did not require a power cycle
> (spinning down/up drives).
>  
>  any help would be greatly appreciated...
>  
>  thanks!
>  
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