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 On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Florin Iucha <florin at iucha.net> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 09:33:30AM -0500, James wrote: > > Currently I am running CentOS 5 on a Dell Poweredge 2400 with 4 18gig > drives > > in a raid 5 configuration and 2 9gig drives setup as a mirror. I just > > purchases 4 36gig drives so my question is if there's a way to move the > > operating system with a tape backup. Some sort of live recovery process? > > If you can add the new drives to your system (maybe you need an > additional SCSI/SAS card) you could boot the old system in single user > mode, then manually create the partitions and copy everything over > using "cp -ax". I did that many times. Tapes are really small and > slow, or really expensive. > > Cheers, > florin > > -- > Bruce Schneier expects the Spanish Inquisition. > http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/fact/163 > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20080918/278c88ea/attachment.htm