Mirroring a server

[jcrowe at cmuonline.net]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 09:27:18AM -0600, Brian Densmore wrote:
> > I do it the wrong way and the quickest way possible:
> > 
> > cat /dev/hda > /dev/hdc
> > cat /dev/hdb > /dev/hdd
> This is totally evil and a huge waste of disk if the old disk is
> a 4 GB and the new disk is a 40GB. Not to mention Linux may complain
> that the disk says it is a 40GB drive and the partition info says it is
> a 4GB drive.

I will be installing everything on a clean machine, then copying to an identical server with 
identical drives.
The OS drive is 40 gigs and the /home (holds mail) is 160 gigs.

What I am more concerned with is "keeping" the two servers identical.

Jason