Re: Clone ES4 machine

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I, too, am looking for a way to clone.  What I want to do is have 2 disks in a computer and make changes to the first disk.  If the changes break things, I can swap the disks, re-clone the one I just made the master to the now broken disk, and make adjustments to the changes I just made.

I do this on SOlaris with ufsdump and ufsrestore script that can dupe a disk in 10 minutes.

I don't want to reinvent the wheel, so I am looking for someone who has already done this with system commands and a script.

Unfortunately, I work in a place where I cannot import software from the Internet and install it.  I have only inherent OS functions to use.

dorothy



 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Dag Wieers <dag@xxxxxxxxxx>
> On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Dag Wieers wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, j_70@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > 
> > > I am looking to 'clone' one of our ES4 production machines to make an 
> > > exact copy as a development box. Does linux have a built in method for 
> > > this or can someone point me in the right direction for a method for 
> > > this. TIA.
> > 
> > Rsync is a simple way to copy a complete system. The procedure goes 
> > something like this:
> > 
> >   + Boot a rescue image that contains a recent rsync binary
> >   + Partition your disk(s)
> >   + Create the filesystems and mount them in a directory structure that 
> >     has sufficient filesystem space (or optionally mimics the original 
> >     system)
> >   + Rsync the original system onto your new filesystem structure
> > 
> > The tools you would use are resp. fdisk, mkfs (or mfks.ext3), mount, mkdir 
> > and rsync.
> 
> I didn't mention that you need network as well, although the rescue image 
> could have done that for you using dhcp.
> 
> Kind regards,
> --   dag wieers,  dag@xxxxxxxxxx,  http://dag.wieers.com/   --
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