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crockpotveggies
Asked: 2011-09-27 13:05:29 +0800 CST

Backup all Yum repos and packages on CentOS 5 server?

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I'm spinning up a new CentOS 5 server and to save some time I'd like to use the same repos and packages as installed on another CentOS 5 server. Is anyone aware of a systematic or best practice method to doing so?

I appreciate the help.

yum centos5

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  1. Best Answer

    Check out DevStructure's blueprint. It'll reverse-engineer your server's setup and packages and generate one massive bash script to replay all that on a new server.

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  2. You could examine the original system's kickstart file generated during installation. That should reside in /root/anaconda-ks.cfg and will show some of the basics of the installed system. You could also look at the repo files in /etc/yum.repos.d to get an idea of the enabled repos. Finally, you can get an rpm listing from the original server via rpm -qa | sort -n > rpmlisting.txt and work from there.

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