<div dir="ltr">isn't there a way to build and ISO image of the current OS using 'cat' and filename.iso? i heard that that works though i have never tried it... yet<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Florin Iucha <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:florin@iucha.net">florin@iucha.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 09:33:30AM -0500, James wrote:<br>
> Currently I am running CentOS 5 on a Dell Poweredge 2400 with 4 18gig drives<br>
> in a raid 5 configuration and 2 9gig drives setup as a mirror. I just<br>
> purchases 4 36gig drives so my question is if there's a way to move the<br>
> operating system with a tape backup. Some sort of live recovery process?<br>
<br>
</div></div>If you can add the new drives to your system (maybe you need an<br>
additional SCSI/SAS card) you could boot the old system in single user<br>
mode, then manually create the partitions and copy everything over<br>
using "cp -ax". I did that many times. Tapes are really small and<br>
slow, or really expensive.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
florin<br>
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