Clone ES4 machine

[Dag Wieers]

On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, j_70 at comcast.net 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.

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