On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:18:56 +0000 (UTC), James wrote: > I've been on a journey to migrate many servers (firewalls and dns) > to Compact Flash (CF) drives to improve reliability,
Bear in mind the limited write lifetime of flash memory. Don't put /var or /tmp on such a card if you can avoid it. http://linitx.com/viewproduct.php?prodid=10448 > Issue 4. Cloning or Duplicating. > As many of you know, installations can be quite time consuming, > and challenging on old PCs. So what I intend to do is take > and currently running machine and stream the contents to > another machine with a CF burner or pull the CF card from > a machine that is in good shape but shutdown and duplicate it. Why not copy the contents of a card to a hard disk somewhere? That way you don't have to disturb a running machine to make a copy. > 4A. Best method to duplicate the CF card live while the system > is running. Don't. > DD, cpio, scp (example syntax) in a step by step)? You could dd the card to a file and use the same file every time you need a new card. > 4B. What is the minimal amount of data/files that need to be edited > bot build a similar but unique machine. > 1. IP address (edit conf.d/net). > 2. Name (edit) conf.d/hostname). Both of these can be handled by DHCP. -- Neil Bothwick File not found. Should I fake it? (Y/N)
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