Re: CentOS 5 or Ubuntu 6.06 for remote desktop?

["Blunier, Mark" <Mark.Blunier@aventinerei.com>]

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> Subject: Re: CentOS 5 or Ubuntu 6.06 for remote desktop?
> 
> 
> Steve,
> Do you or anyone else know of a good easy backup tool
> to where I could ssh into the remote box and backup
> the whole HD and then easily extract that onto an
> identical machine here to test?
> Derek

I've made backups of system with everything on one partition by
booting up knoppix on the machine I wan't
to copy to, partition the hard drive, make the file systems,
mount the file system (on /mnt/mnt), cd to the file system
(cd /mnt), the copy everything over except /proc, /sys, and
/tmp.

ssh root@<source machine> "tar -zpcO / --exclude /proc --exclude /sys --exclude /tmp" | tar -zpxv

Then
mkdir -m=777 tmp
mkdir proc sys


If you have multiple partitions you could do something similar for
all fo the partitions.  If you already have a system installed,
you wouldn't need to knoppix.

Mark


> 
> --- Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 06:52:51AM -0800, Derek Agar
> > wrote:
> > > I have a remote user in Lafayette that I am going
> > to
> > > visit Thursday.  His computer is at fedora 5.  I
> > am
> > > wondering what would be a better way to go either
> > to
> > > move him to centos 5.1 or Ubuntu 6.06?
> > 
> > Upgrading an older Fedora to CentOS is fairly
> > painless.  You *might*
> > just be able to do the upgrade from the CD/DVD.  If
> > not, remove the
> > fedora-release package ("rpm -e fedora-release
> > --nodeps") and replace it
> > with the centos-release package first, then try the
> > upgrade from CD/DVD.
> > (I've done it before with yum.)
> > 
> > With the EPEL repo
> > (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL) getting closer
> > to being complete, running CentOS 5 + EPEL 5 isn't
> > much different than
> > running Fedora Core/Extras 6.
> > 
> > Steve
> > -- 
> > steve@silug.org           | Southern Illinois Linux
> > Users Group
> > (618)624-4440             | See web site for meeting
> > details.
> > Steven Pritchard          | http://www.silug.org/
> > 
> 
> 
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