Best method for server cloning

madunix madunix at gmail.com
Mon Feb 1 21:08:18 UTC 2010


I use multiple tools to image linux system only (my best one is mondo) ,

1- use Mondo Rescue to clone linux systems:
http://www.mondorescue.org
in order to image your system and create bootable CD/DVD download
mondo for your distro
ftp://ftp.mondorescue.org
more info read this manual
http://www.mondorescue.org/docs/mondorescue-howto.pdf

2- You can use dd also. dd if=/dev/somedisk of=/dev/somedestination

3- rsync scripting

4- netcat
On the source server: (cd / && tar -cvf - ) | nc 192.168.1.2 2000
On the destination:: nc -l -p 2000 | tar -xvf -

5- http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/

6-http://clonezilla.org/

madunix

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 9:10 PM, cliff here <c4ifford at gmail.com> wrote:
> I tried to do a dd through netcat and I couldn't get it working
>
> On 2/1/10, George Magklaras <georgios at biotek.uio.no> wrote:
>> Check again.
>>
>> Gparted has LVM2 support since February 2009, AFAIK.
>>
>> GM
>>
>> Mike Burger wrote:
>>>> I use GParted to clone partitions (and thus entire servers):
>>>> http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/index.shtml
>>>>
>>>> As a sysadmin, I normally have a copy of the SystemRescueCD
>>>> (http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page) which includes Gparted amongst
>>>> other useful tools.
>>>>
>>>> GM
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> cliff here wrote:
>>>>> I'm curious if anyone has any suggestions or methods for server cloning,
>>>>> ie.. same hardware same build, software etc..  . I've tried clonezilla
>>>>> and
>>>>> it doesn't  seem to work with my SAS Drive array.
>>>
>>> Last I checked, gparted didn't deal well with LVM, though.
>>>
>>
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