Re: [Sheflug] NFS the hard way

["Graham Cox" <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

Surely there's a much easier way to solve this, assuming you actually can do
it. All you need to do is to take the hard drive out of the server and stick
it in the machine your duplicating it to, and then mount it under that
computer and copy it across. It would save all the hassle of NFS, as it's
not being used, and it would also be a lot faster than copying the hard
drive over a network link. This is, of course, assuming you can take the
computers offline for long enough to do this.

HTH
--
Graham

----- Original Message -----
From: "James Wallbank" <james [at] lowtech.org>
To: "Sheflug" <sheflug [at] vuw.ac.nz>
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 1:00 PM
Subject: [Sheflug] NFS the hard way


> Hi All,
>
> How do I activate NFS the hard way - completely by hand?
>
> Why??? Because I need to duplicate one of our servers, and if I boot
> it normally then everything goes pear-shaped, because when I mount it
> over NFS to copy the disk I can't copy loads of open files and active
> executables.
>
> My solution? Boot the server (the machine to be duplicated) in single
> user mode so that the h/d has minimal activity. The problem then is
> that I need to get NFS up and running. I've used ifconfig to give the
> machine a meaningful IP address, netmask etc, and I've used route so
> that I can ping the target machine, which is sitting there with an
> empty hda1 ready to receive the data.
>
> But, of course, when I try to mount my server's hda1 over nfs from
> the target machine, the whole process fails with an RPC port mapper
> failure.
>
> Presumably this is because nfsd isn't running on the server (?)
>
> When (on the server) I try...
>
> rpc.nfsd
>
> I get the message "Cannot register service: RPC unable to receive;
> errno = Connection refused."
>
> What commands should I use to get nfs active on the server?
>
> Cheers,
>
> James
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