Best method for server cloning

[cliff here]

Well the one thing I couldn't find is how to do a dd if your drive is array
in this case HP servers cciss driver.

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 9:08 PM, madunix <madunix at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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