Not that I understand the pitfalls of clonezilla, but this sounds like a good start. Has a RFE ticket been submitted yet for some sort of cloning? I didn't see one.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:cobbler- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Matthew Barr > Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 1:52 AM > To: cobbler mailing list > Subject: Re: Stategery regarding Windows support for mixed environments > > > > > Regarding the cloning of physical systems, a while back Andrew Brown > > contributed a live image that would clone (a bit slowly) a physical > > system using cobbler to network > > deploy the clone image. I think it might be interesting to try to > > resurrect and supercharge that idea. This way we could be sure to > > deploy > > Windows systems > > that /also/ had their software installed, without having to also > teach > > Cobbler about Windows domain automation. We say Clonezilla and other > > analogs is hard to deploy, > > why not write a better solution? > > We're in the process of getting clonezilla up & running. We've added > it to cobbler as a distro, without any real issues, and are actually > intending to use to for RHEL based systems, vs windows. We have a few > Oracle RAC servers, and they're all identical to each other except for > the host name, and a few settings that the DBA's need to adjust. > It'll be much faster than using a kickstart to build the system, in > our case. > > > We also made the Windows team in the office (vs the datacenter) > happy, by allowing them to use the pxe to pull up clonezilla. They > can reimage a machine without even moving it. > > > I'm not sure of what the issue was with clonezilla in the past, but it > seems pretty straight forward to us. > > > Having said that - it *really* doesn't like booting with the fiber > cards we have on our hardware, so.. i'll be looking into the live > image for cloning. Maybe that works :-) > > > Matthew > > ------------------ > Matthew Barr > InteractiveOne - Senior System Engineer > e:[email protected] > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
