[Novalug] Cloning a machine/drive: best practices?

covici@ccs.covici.com covici@ccs.covici.com
Fri Nov 1 11:09:49 EDT 2013


OK, I will look and see.

Michael Hans <mhans@oqtol.com> wrote:

> Restore has some options for this I believe , but it has been a few years (
> 2008 LiveCD).
> 
> On Friday, November 1, 2013, covici@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> 
> > I tried  clonezilla, but it was a larger drive and gave me the
> > partitions for the smaller size!
> >
> > Michael Hans <mhans@oqtol.com <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> > > I've cloned a laptop to an image and later restored the image on a new
> > > drive, worked great in CloneZilla
> > >
> > > On Friday, November 1, 2013, Brandon Saxe wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I've never used Clonezilla as it was dependent on the network back in
> > the
> > > > day... I see now there is a live CD option. Anybody care to comment on
> > how
> > > > well that works for cloning disk to disk?
> > > >
> > > > My usual practice is to use systemrescuecd and do a 'ddrescue' of the
> > bits
> > > > I want/need.
> > > >
> > > > --Brandon
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Friday, November 1, 2013 7:15 AM, Keith Howell <
> > > > keith.c.howell@gmail.com <javascript:;> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > > > Simple single word solution:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > clonezilla
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > http://clonezilla.org/
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I would write more except it would just be repeating all the stuff on
> > > > the homepage :)
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Keith Howell
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On 11/01/2013 07:04 AM, greg pryzby wrote:
> > > > > While I would love to use something like kickstart for debian it will
> > > > > require more work that I can take.
> > > > >
> > > > > I have a system (nanopc) that is working. It requires downloading
> > > > tarballs
> > > > > and building drivers as well as blacklisting some drivers. There are
> > > > other
> > > > > things I did that I probably forgot about it.
> > > > >
> > > > > The chassis will take 1 drive (ssd).
> > > > >
> > > > > I would like to clone the drive (exact same hardware).
> > > > >
> > > > > I do not have a disk cloner (maybe that is the easiest solution).
> > > > >
> > > > > I was thinking of booting each machine from USB and trying to "dd"
> > the
> > > > > driver across the network. I don't this scp will work so I would
> > need to
> > > > > use NFS to mount the working drive on the machine with the blank
> > drive
> > > > and
> > > > > then dd.
> > > > >
> > > > > Think this will work?
> > > > >
> > > > > Other ideas?
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
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