I am building the Clonezilla live CD now....
Les Mikesell wrote:
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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