Clone ES4 machine

[Dag Wieers]

On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Dag Wieers wrote:

> 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.

I didn't mention that you need network as well, although the rescue image 
could have done that for you using dhcp.

Kind regards,
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