You tell me how you'd like to "snapshot" a server with no volume management system. I dumped the databases at least...
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Replying to @marcan42
mysqldump + rsync should be good enough I think.. do you know if it'll come back after a reboot?
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Replying to @srdjanrosic
Plan is to head to the DC next month when I'm in the area and reinstall the fucker. And move the current turd OS into a VM.
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Replying to @marcan42 @srdjanrosic
I might be able to do the VM move ahead of time. Disk/partition layout is such that I can convert a whole disk to LVM.
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Replying to @marcan42 @srdjanrosic
are you talking some sort of in place conversion or lift and shift?
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Replying to @DrScriptt @srdjanrosic
This thing has two disks/arrays. I should be able to completely free one with minimal (~5min) downtime.
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Then LVM it, create VM volume, tar/rsync rootfs into that, boot it and restore databases, ensure it works
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Replying to @marcan42 @DrScriptt
sounds like a good plan, except if you don't have access to the machine and it doesn't boot or want to reboot
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Replying to @srdjanrosic @marcan42
ya … I would want a functional DRAC / iLO / RSA / IMM / IPMI w/ console.
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Replying to @DrScriptt @srdjanrosic
I'm not planning on rebooting the host until I get to the datacenter. And then I'll see if I can set up iLO.
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The choke point is /var is on the to-be-freed disk, but I should be able to stop all daemons touching that.
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