Dag Wieers wrote:
The clonezilla live project is a really nice way to do image-copies of
machines:
http://clonezilla.sourceforge.net/clonezilla-live/
but it's based on a Debian live OS which has some unfamiliar quirks. Has
anyone built something like this on a Centos base?
For anyone who hasn't seen it, it can do whole disk or partition copies of
windows and most Linux filesystems and it knows enough to only copy the used
parts of the disk. Among other tricks, it can also build a bootable iso image
containing itself and one or more images that you can load directly from the
cd/dvd.
Seems similar to partimage. If you use Recovery Is Possible (RIP) you have
a small image (77MB) that contains a recent kernel with all tools you can
imagine (with ntfs, cifs, partimage, ...)
You can put RIP on a small USB stick, or ISO or PXE.
Clonzilla probably uses the same underlying tools, plus ntfsclone as the
default option for ntfs partitions, but I think it has better network
support with options for multicast mass-cloning and the ability to
store/load the images over nfs/smb/sshfs as well as local storage. It
works fine as-is. I just wondered if anyone had done the same on a
centos-live distribution base. One thing that would be a great addition
would be if, after the image is restored to the disk, you could drop
into the equivalent of a rescue mode boot and be able to chroot to the
newly installed system without needed a reboot. But, I guess the NICs
might not be detected as the same devices when booted with different
kernels, initrd's or modprobe.conf files anyway.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
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