In my case I needed to move a machine from a headless box to an ESXi server. \u00a0The VMWare tool does not support software raid.<\/p>\n
I started by installing the OS on the new box with the same partition layout. \u00a0This takes care of all of the mbr and boot stuff. \u00a0The critical part, though, is \/ with the configuration, installed programs and any amount of data. \u00a0I used nc to do this and did it very painlessly.<\/p>\n
#server you’re sending files to
\nnc -l 1024 > backup4.tgz<\/p>\n#client you’re backing up
\ntar -cvpz –one-file-system \/ | nc neon.imaginenetworksllc.com 1024<\/p>\n#boot the new box aka new client with a linux live cd and mount the partition
\nmkdir \/mnt\/sda3
\nmount \/dev\/sda3 \/mnt\/sda3
\nnc -l 1024 | tar -xvpzf – -C \/mnt\/sda3<\/p>\n#on that backup server
\ncat backup4.tgz | nc NEW.BOX.COM 1024<\/p><\/blockquote>\nIn my case I just installed the OS on the box so it had grub and the boot partition all done. What makes this box is the files in \/.
\nMoving from ext3 partitions on md0 devices directly to sda1 I have to tell it to mount correctly.
\n*\/etc\/fstab
\n*eth0.bak has the ip config<\/p>\n*nload was nice to monitor network usage<\/p>\n
*lots of help from https:\/\/help.ubuntu.com\/community\/BackupYourSystem\/TAR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In my case I needed to move a machine from a headless box to an ESXi server. \u00a0The VMWare tool does not support software raid. I started by installing the OS on the new box with the same partition layout. \u00a0This takes care of all of the mbr and boot stuff. \u00a0The critical part, though, … Continue reading “Migrating a Linux machine”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iam8up.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iam8up.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iam8up.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam8up.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam8up.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam8up.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam8up.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iam8up.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam8up.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam8up.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}