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I have two identical servers, one has RHEL 5 and Zimbra installed and the other is currently not really doing anything. Both have hardware RAID (Adaptec) set to RAID10, identical ...
  1. 04-08-2010 #1
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    Bare metal clone

    I have two identical servers, one has RHEL 5 and Zimbra installed and the other is currently not really doing anything.

    Both have hardware RAID (Adaptec) set to RAID10, identical hard drives, etc. The RHEL/Zimbra machine is set up with LVM2.

    Is it possible for me to hook them up on the secondary NICs and boot the second machine with Knoppix or something else, and easily tell it to duplicate the first machine onto the second, down to the last bit, or do I need to make all the partitions beforehand and dd each one separately?

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    So as I understand it, you are trying to clone the RHEL 5 system to the other? Check out Clonezilla for a commonly used tool for this purpose.
    Sometimes, real fast is almost as good as real time.
    Just remember, Semper Gumbi - always be flexible!
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    Thanks, that should do nicely.
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    I don't suppose there is a way to do this "live", while the email server is running?
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    you have to bring down the machine to run this
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    Future

    This would be definitely a helpful article in future for bare metal clone.
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