On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 10:04:28 -0400 Alan McKay <alan.mc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi folks, Hi! > I have also found this : http://www.ualberta.ca/~antoine/clone/openbsd.html > Also looks promising. this seems to be helper/wrapper scripts around dump. dump(8) is the way to go. I usually do dump -0auf 140822var.dump0 /var for dumping /var in a file or dump -0auf - /var |nc -l 11111 on source and restore -rf - |nc source 11111 for cloning a partition over the network. > I like the looks of the latter since it seems to allow me to run the > first part on a live system, to make a copy of that system (can anyone > confirm that?). I'd much rather not have to take it down to make the > image since I don't have to do that when I clone Linux. And my > production systems will be happier that way :-) This will work. I can confirm that. dump can dump from mounted as well as unmounted filesystems. > Clonezilla looks to be all-singing-all-dancing, but seems to require > me to boot from their CD or USB in order to make a copy of my original > system (can anyone confirm or refute?). Not a massive issue in my DEV > rack but not ideal in production. > > In Linux the way I do systems is to boot the target system in Live > Linux (Ubuntu), and then partition the HD(s) the way I want, and mount > them up under /mnt/target/ with that being my root. Then run rsync > locally to copy the master live system into /mnt/target. Use a couple > of options to tell it what not to copy. Works awesome. The above > perl scripts from U Alberta seem to be at least a bit similar to this > procedure. > > Are there any options I am missing that I should look at? > Has anyone used the above methods and can comment on how well they > work or whether or not I should just avoid one or the other? after restoring / copying the filesystems using dump/restore and fixing up /etc/fstab on the target system, you'll need to install boot. see installboot(8). Christopher -- http://gmerlin.de OpenPGP: http://gmerlin.de/christopher.pub F190 D013 8F01 AA53 E080 3F3C F17F B0A1 D44E 4FEE [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]
