Greetings to all,

I have this clone machine running RH 9 running various services, namely:

1.Web
2.Mail
3.DNS
4.FTP

that I would like to migrate to my new xSeries server which is also running RH 9

How do I do it quick and perfect, without effecting any service which is running currently.

Some specs on clone machine:

2.4Ghz,1gb Ram, ATA hardisk

Some specs on xSeries machine:
3.0, 1gb, 3 pcs of SCSI hardisk separated directories namely:

1./boot
2./
---------
3./home
---------
4./var

Please advice the best way to migrate.
cheers,
-Noel

I would use rsync. Go to this thread here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=243718
and read the rsync stuff I posted. Like it says in the post go throught he manpage of rsync for all the options that go with it, and backup anything that is important first!

if u r only concerned about the perfectness and accuracy
do it manually coz recently i have migrated my 3 servers

regarding
important files

assuming
web u r using apache 2. 0/
mail u r using sendmail /
dns u r using bind/
ftp u r using vsftpd/
_________________________

important file

to back up

/etc/hosts

____________
dns
---------------------

/etc/named.conf
/var/named/

_________________
web
-----------------------------
/var/www
/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

________________
MAIL
----------------------

/etc/mail/
/var/spool/mail/
___________________
password files
---------------------
/etc/passwd
/etc/shadow

________________________

if you have any important user data just back up user home dirs

and replace it on u r new server.
and check other minor issues to adjust

i hope it will work coz i worked in my case
if any issues jus mail me.

I am trying to move it to a remote machine, so I am trying to do a 'rcp' with -p.

A quick browse in google, I add /etc/hosts.equiv
with the content below:

+root

then move to /root, vi /root/.rhosts

sourcemachine root

Then I go to my source machine(old machine), and do

rcp -p /home/someonelses.files sourcemachine:/root

But I get a message "connection refused".

What step I missed out? Both machine are inside a LAN environment, and my old machine is running ssh service.