Virtual Servers and Services

Copying a Logical Volume or Partition over SSH

This should only be attempted on either a snapshot lvm volume, or an unmounted hard drive partition!

Using ssh and dd you can copy any LVM or (unmounted) hard drive partition over the internet to a new machine easily.  You can do a "push" or "pull" copy.  Here's a "push" copy:

dd if=/dev/vg0/partition-snapshot bs=1k |
   ssh remotehost dd of=/dev/vg0/partition-destination bs=1k

The best way to redirect a page is to use Apache's mod_rewrite.  Notoriously cryptic it is, but it's fast and not too hard to figure out for basic things.  Here's an example mod_rewrite to redirect http to https.   Put it in your apache config preferably, or your .htaccess file if you can't modify your config directly.

Ever try to transfer a domain off of Network Solutions before it expires? Don’t do it until you read this and avoid my mistake. Here’s the process.