Fwd: cloning with dd

2013-01-31 Thread Paul Robert Marino
take a look at this one http://relax-and-recover.org/ the RPM is in EPEL rear.noarch it should give you the best of both worlds. the problem with using dd is you occasionally get bit drift which can cause you problems latter. and Rsync wont install grub on your mbr or format the partitions. rear

Re: cloning with dd

2013-01-30 Thread Lamar Owen
On 01/29/2013 10:48 AM, Yasha Karant wrote: We have a limited, small, number of IEEE 802.3 connected hardware platform identical workstations to clone -- no 802.11 nor any shared (remote, distributed) disk storage (at this time). My plan was to get one fully operational and configured, and

Re: cloning with dd

2013-01-30 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 10:48:55AM -0500, Lamar Owen wrote: On 01/29/2013 10:48 AM, Yasha Karant wrote: We have a limited, small, number of IEEE 802.3 connected hardware platform identical workstations to clone -- no 802.11 nor any shared (remote, distributed) disk storage (at this time). My

Re: cloning with dd

2013-01-30 Thread Oleg Sadov
В Срд, 30/01/2013 в 09:16 -0800, Konstantin Olchanski пишет: On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 10:48:55AM -0500, Lamar Owen wrote: On 01/29/2013 10:48 AM, Yasha Karant wrote: We have a limited, small, number of IEEE 802.3 connected hardware platform identical workstations to clone -- no 802.11 nor

cloning with dd

2013-01-29 Thread Yasha Karant
We have a limited, small, number of IEEE 802.3 connected hardware platform identical workstations to clone -- no 802.11 nor any shared (remote, distributed) disk storage (at this time). My plan was to get one fully operational and configured, and then clone the hard drive image onto the

Re: cloning with dd

2013-01-29 Thread Steve Gaarder
I've done cloning for many years with tar: On the source machine, boot from an SL live CD and mount the source's root file system. Make a tar file of this system with a command like: cd /mnt/wherever tar -cSf - . | ssh someuser@somewhere 'cat mysystem.tar' Then, on the target, boot the live

Re: cloning with dd

2013-01-29 Thread Mark Stodola
On 01/29/2013 09:56 AM, Steve Gaarder wrote: I've done cloning for many years with tar: On the source machine, boot from an SL live CD and mount the source's root file system. Make a tar file of this system with a command like: cd /mnt/wherever tar -cSf - . | ssh someuser@somewhere 'cat

Re: cloning with dd

2013-01-29 Thread Yasha Karant
There are advantages and disadvantages of the methodology you use. I have the following questions: 1. The SL live CD presumably requires a manual configuration of the network -- this university uses /22 IPv4 subnets (we have not made the full conversion to IPv6, although we support IPv6

Re: cloning with dd

2013-01-29 Thread Mark Stodola
On 01/29/2013 10:43 AM, Yasha Karant wrote: There are advantages and disadvantages of the methodology you use. I have the following questions: 1. The SL live CD presumably requires a manual configuration of the network -- this university uses /22 IPv4 subnets (we have not made the full

Re: cloning with dd

2013-01-29 Thread Yasha Karant
On 01/29/2013 08:55 AM, Mark Stodola wrote: On 01/29/2013 10:43 AM, Yasha Karant wrote: There are advantages and disadvantages of the methodology you use. I have the following questions: 1. The SL live CD presumably requires a manual configuration of the network -- this university uses /22

Re: cloning with dd

2013-01-29 Thread Bluejay Adametz
target hard drive. The hard drive on A is /dev/sda, call it Ahd. A is shut down power off. Bhd is installed into an available bay on A, A is booted, and Bhd appears as /dev/sdb in A. Using dd on A, clone /dev/sda to /dev/sdb . Mount on A the partition of /dev/sdb that contains /etc (there

Re: cloning with dd

2013-01-29 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
and configured, and then clone the hard drive image onto the remaining machines one hard drive at a time. I clone SL systems using both methods - dd (mdadm raid1, actually) and rsync. The down side of cloning with dd is that all UUIDs become cloned (root filesystem, etc) and that can cause some

Re: cloning with dd

2013-01-29 Thread jdow
On 2013/01/29 10:20, Bluejay Adametz wrote: target hard drive. The hard drive on A is /dev/sda, call it Ahd. A is shut down power off. Bhd is installed into an available bay on A, A is booted, and Bhd appears as /dev/sdb in A. Using dd on A, clone /dev/sda to /dev/sdb . Mount on A the

Re: cloning with dd

2013-01-29 Thread Yasha Karant
(at this time). My plan was to get one fully operational and configured, and then clone the hard drive image onto the remaining machines one hard drive at a time. I clone SL systems using both methods - dd (mdadm raid1, actually) and rsync. The down side of cloning with dd is that all UUIDs become