RedHat: OS management Qs?

[Prajish S]

I hope this will help
http://clonezilla.org/

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 8:57 PM, Asim Zuberi <az6 at njit.edu> wrote:

> Thanks for your quick response.
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> What if, over the years certain packages were installed on the production
> server. And now there's a need to clone the system.
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> The kickstart file under /root/anaconda-ks.cfg won't be up to date then?
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> --Asim;
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> From: cliff here [mailto:c4ifford at gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 10:18 AM
> To: Asim.Zuberi.1993 at njit.edu; General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: RedHat: OS management Qs?
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> Kickstart file with the exact parameters of your install is located as
> anaconda-ks.cfg in your /root
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> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Asim Zuberi <az6 at njit.edu> wrote:
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> Hello All -
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> Two Questions:
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> a)      how can I take the snapshot of an installed OS distribution on a
> system and apply the image onto another system?
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> For example: on Solaris, I can use "flash archive" to capture the OS
> installed image and then use jumpstart to install
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> the OS on to another system.
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> b)      how can I perform a live upgrade of the installed RedHat system?
> Use
> up2date or yum? What is the preferred approach?
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> Can someone please send me the steps or point me to the online procedures?
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> thanks in advance,
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> --Asim;
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