[ale] Cloning a Web Server help

Sat Aug 6 03:56:31 EDT 2011

At my job we have a web server our boss wants cloned just in case it goes
down so we can have minimal down time, it has gone down in the past and it's
taken us a few days to get back up after trying to troubleshoot the problem
which turned out to be a bad wall socket. Now I was thinking about using
clonezilla and just cloning the drive but like I said before we want minimal
down time and as far as I know clonezilla would require shutting down the
server before cloning. Earlier I was told about a method that mirrors one
drive to another and everytime a change is made to the primariy it's copied
onto the secondary, sort of like a raid set up but not with raid. I'm still
researching into that to see if that's a viable solution. Any suggestions to
accomplish this? Also as a FYI I can't install any hard drives into the
server to start a raid and I will be backing up to a external USB drive
either connected to it directly or to another machine, either or will work.
Thanks!

Shade

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> Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2011 19:09:47 -0400
> From: handran <handran at mindspring.com>
> Subject: Re: [ale] CentOS 5.6 64Bit Install
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
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> On 8/5/2011 6:17 PM, Greg Clifton wrote:
> > Charles,
> >
> > This is a bare metal install on a new system with 2 mirrored boot
> > drives and 2 mirrored 1TB storage drives off a 3Ware controller.
> > Plenty of room, but no previous OS installed, I also have a DVD drive
> > in the system, I just don't know what other files.
> >
> > I can see why lots of folks like Ubuntu, at least last time I
> > installed Ubuntu server 8.4(?) it booted off the DVD and installed w/o
> > any problems. Sure seems easier to a noob like me!
> >
> > Greg
>
> Looks like you need 8 CD iso's */or/*  2 DVD iso's.
>
> Available here:
> http://ftp.usf.edu/pub/centos/5/isos/x86_64/
> http://mirrors.rit.edu/centos/5.6/isos/x86_64/
> http://linux.mirrors.es.net/centos/5.6/isos/x86_64/
> ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/mirror.centos.org/5.6/isos/x86_64/
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> Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 19:53:09 -0400
> From: Greg Clifton <gccfof5 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [ale] CentOS 5.6 64Bit Install
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
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> Yes, I have a DVD drive, but what I don't have is the "know-what"  and a
> little of the "know-how" to put on the DVD(s). Here is the link on GT
> mirror
> site for CentOS 5.6 h
> ttp://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/centos/5.6/os/x86_64/images/<
> http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/centos/5.6/os/x86_64/images/>,
> what do I need to pull down from among those files to make a successful
> install? In what order?
>
> Thanks,
> GC
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 7:09 PM, handran <handran at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> > **
> > On 8/5/2011 6:17 PM, Greg Clifton wrote:
> >
> > Charles,
> >
> >  This is a bare metal install on a new system with 2 mirrored boot drives
> > and 2 mirrored 1TB storage drives off a 3Ware controller. Plenty of room,
> > but no previous OS installed, I also have a DVD drive in the system, I
> just
> > don't know what other files.
> >
> >  I can see why lots of folks like Ubuntu, at least last time I installed
> > Ubuntu server 8.4(?) it booted off the DVD and installed w/o any
> problems.
> > Sure seems easier to a noob like me!
> >
> >  Greg
> >
> >
> > Looks like you need 8 CD iso's  *or*  2 DVD iso's.
> >
> > Available here:
> > http://ftp.usf.edu/pub/centos/5/isos/x86_64/
> > http://mirrors.rit.edu/centos/5.6/isos/x86_64/
> > http://linux.mirrors.es.net/centos/5.6/isos/x86_64/
> > ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/mirror.centos.org/5.6/isos/x86_64/
> >
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> Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 20:02:27 -0400
> From: Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [ale] CentOS 5.6 64Bit Install
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
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> go here instead:
>
>
> http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/5.6/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.6-x86_64-bin-DVD-1of2.iso
>
> http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/5.6/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.6-x86_64-bin-DVD-2of2.iso
>
> GT doesn't have the full DVD iso. only the torrents.
>
> Yes. It's more a single DVD. The choice was to not require a  double layer
> DVD.
>
> On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Greg Clifton <gccfof5 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Yes, I have a DVD drive, but what I don't have is the "know-what"  and a
> > little of the "know-how" to put on the DVD(s). Here is the link on GT
> mirror
> > site for CentOS 5.6 h
> > ttp://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/centos/5.6/os/x86_64/images/<
> http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/centos/5.6/os/x86_64/images/>,
> > what do I need to pull down from among those files to make a successful
> > install? In what order?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > GC
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 7:09 PM, handran <handran at mindspring.com> wrote:
> >
> >> **
> >> On 8/5/2011 6:17 PM, Greg Clifton wrote:
> >>
> >> Charles,
> >>
> >>  This is a bare metal install on a new system with 2 mirrored boot
> drives
> >> and 2 mirrored 1TB storage drives off a 3Ware controller. Plenty of
> room,
> >> but no previous OS installed, I also have a DVD drive in the system, I
> just
> >> don't know what other files.
> >>
> >>  I can see why lots of folks like Ubuntu, at least last time I installed
> >> Ubuntu server 8.4(?) it booted off the DVD and installed w/o any
> problems.
> >> Sure seems easier to a noob like me!
> >>
> >>  Greg
> >>
> >>
> >> Looks like you need 8 CD iso's  *or*  2 DVD iso's.
> >>
> >> Available here:
> >> http://ftp.usf.edu/pub/centos/5/isos/x86_64/
> >> http://mirrors.rit.edu/centos/5.6/isos/x86_64/
> >> http://linux.mirrors.es.net/centos/5.6/isos/x86_64/
> >> ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/mirror.centos.org/5.6/isos/x86_64/
> >>
> >>
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> Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2011 21:41:08 -0400
> From: handran <handran at mindspring.com>
> Subject: Re: [ale] CentOS 5.6 64Bit Install
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
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> On 8/5/2011 7:53 PM, Greg Clifton wrote:
> > Yes, I have a DVD drive, but what I don't have is the "know-what"  and
> > a little of the "know-how" to put on the DVD(s). Here is the link on
> > GT mirror site for CentOS 5.6
> > http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/centos/5.6/os/x86_64/images/
> > <http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/centos/5.6/os/x86_64/images/>, what
> > do I need to pull down from among those files to make a successful
> > install? In what order?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > GC
>
> First, download the 2 DVD image files from here:
>
>
> http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/5.6/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.6-x86_64-bin-DVD-1of2.iso
>
> http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/5.6/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.6-x86_64-bin-DVD-2of2.iso
>
> Burn those 2 separate /*image*/ (.iso) files to 2 separate blank DVDs
> /*as images*/ (not as a regular file) and label them accordingly (DVD 1
> of 2 and DVD 2 of 2)
> Then boot off the freshly burned 'DVD 1 of 2' and follow the prompts...
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> Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2011 22:58:12 -0400
> From: planas <jslozier at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [ale] CentOS 5.6 64Bit Install
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
> Message-ID: <1312599492.4611.91.camel at planas-pingy-1104>
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> Greg
>
> On Fri, 2011-08-05 at 21:41 -0400, handran wrote:
>
> > On 8/5/2011 7:53 PM, Greg Clifton wrote:
> >
> > > Yes, I have a DVD drive, but what I don't have is the "know-what"
> > >  and a little of the "know-how" to put on the DVD(s). Here is the
> > > link on GT mirror site for CentOS 5.6
> > > http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/centos/5.6/os/x86_64/images/, what
> > > do I need to pull down from among those files to make a successful
> > > install? In what order?
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > GC
> >
> >
> > First, download the 2 DVD image files from here:
> >
> >
> http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/5.6/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.6-x86_64-bin-DVD-1of2.iso
> >
> http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/5.6/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.6-x86_64-bin-DVD-2of2.iso
> >
> > Burn those 2 separate image (.iso) files to 2 separate blank DVDs as
> > images (not as a regular file) and label them accordingly (DVD 1 of 2
> > and DVD 2 of 2)
> > Then boot off the freshly burned 'DVD 1 of 2' and follow the
> > prompts...
> >
> >
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> Try this link http://mirror.its.uidaho.edu/pub/centos/  Follow the links
> until you get a page listing the various iso's available and choose both
> of the dvd images. Make sure you click on the isos link. The Tech site
> is linking to torrents for the dvd. The Tech link is not a page where
> you can download the torrents.
>
> Open your cd/dvd burning software, such as Brasero, you should be able
> to select burning an iso image or have it recognize as an iso image.
>
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