Robert Moskowitz wrote:
It will be many times faster than doing DD images of entire drives.
eg. in my case here, i can provision a new machine in 2 min and 43
seconds for a base+core minimal centos-5 install. installing over http
from a machine on a GiB/sec link and installing to a 2 disk raid-1
There is much good to say about using kickstart method than learning a
new approach like Clonezilla. I have not used kickstart since Centos
4.something, so I have no good notes and will have to dig again. But
this is pretty much a one-time clone and Clonezilla does not seem to set
up the partitioning info on the new drive so that would be one more
thing to learn.
You are reading the wrong thing about clonezilla. In disk image mode it
will duplicate the partitioning for you and it knows enough about most
filesystems to just copy the used portions. There are options to just
take one partition if you want, but if you do the whole disk it will set
up the partitions for you. It understands LVM, but not multi-disk
software raid. I'd expect it to be faster than any other way to
duplicate systems if you don't count downloading the iso and making your
initial image copy from the master.
So I take the anaconda-ks.cfg file, add stuff so it will boot off the
network and use the update repo as well as the base. Then rediscover the
command to run linux from a kickstart file on a diskette.
Piece of CAKE!
Clonezilla can also be network-booted if you have enough machines to be
worth the trouble to set up (and it can clone windows and other linux
distributions as well). There is a companion project called DRBL that
handles network booting and provides NFS storage for the clients to save
and load images.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
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