Sometimes it is pertinent to take a mondo backup from a running physical system and do a restore to a virtual machine. The virtual machine could be vmware, virtualbox etc. The test unit in this case was an IBM x3650M4 physical server (Running Redhat 6.4 64-bit Enterprise Edition). The mondo software is available here. In … Read more
Sometimes for peace of mind it is safer to go though an upgrade in a chroot environment first. This enables one to work out any potential issues which may arise while performing the upgrade. For this scenario I have the following configuration: * Main system is running Debian Wheezy (7.0) * System to be upgraded … Read more
If you wish to avoid the overhead of the ssh encryption algorithm you can use netcat to transfer the files. Be warned, that this is plain text, so you should only use this on a trusted network (or with non-sensitive data). On target: “nc -l 4000 | tar xvf -” On source: “tar -cf – … Read more