Hi,
I want to clone my hardisk containing the centos-5.3 OS and its swap region on to new raw hardisk via network either through ssh, tftp or ftp. How do i do that ?
Is there any Tool for that or will DD command be sufficient.I know that dd command will have to be used on hardisk with already existing partitions and not on raw disk.
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2010/2/15 premrajm@digilink.in:
Hi,
I want to clone my hardisk containing the centos-5.3 OS and its swap region on to new raw hardisk via network either through ssh, tftp or ftp. How do i do that ?
dd if=localfile | ssh target_address "dd of=remotefile"
It is recommended to boot source computer with livecd to avoid filechanges during clone operation.
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At Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:55:02 +0530 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
Hi,
I want to clone my hardisk containing the centos-5.3 OS and its swap region on to new raw hardisk via network either through ssh, tftp or ftp. How do i do that ?
Is there any Tool for that or will DD command be sufficient.I know that dd command will have to be used on hardisk with already existing partitions and not on raw disk.
DD is not really the proper tool for this, for a whole pile of reasons. See the article I wrote on this subject at the URL:
http://www.deepsoft.com/2009/01/how-to-transfer-a-linux-system-from-one-disk...
While the above article assumes that the copy is on a second *local* disk, it is trivial to insert 'ssh remote.host.domain' into the pipe line.
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Clonezilla do a network version that does this,
http://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-server-edition/
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, James Bensley wrote:
Clonezilla do a network version that does this,
+1 for Clonezilla. For smaller-scale cloning, it and an external USB drive are just the ticket (assuming your hardware can boot from a USB device).
Paul Heinlein wrote:
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, James Bensley wrote:
Clonezilla do a network version that does this,
+1 for Clonezilla. For smaller-scale cloning, it and an external USB drive are just the ticket (assuming your hardware can boot from a USB device).
Clonezilla is very versatile. If you have some network-shared space that can hold an intermediate (compressed) copy of the image (via nfs, smb, or ssh) the easy approach is to boot from the clonezilla-live CD, connect to the storage location, and save the copy from your source machine, then repeat and restore it on the target(s). This is also a handy way to keep snapshot backups of dual-boot laptops etc. when making changes.
You can also do disk->disk copies from the clonezilla-live boot if you can install them in the same box or connect with a USB adapter cable. Dd can be used but it will copy the whole disk. Clonezilla knows enough about most filesystems to only copy the used parts. (It's basically a linux boot with scripted, menu driven partimag, ntfsclone, etc. tools). A USB boot works as well or better than the CD, and if you do a lot of cloning you can add drbl to a server (it's packaged for centos and easy to install) to provide PXE network booting into clonezilla which comes up with the server already NFS mounted for access to the images.
premrajm@digilink.in wrote:
Hi,
I want to clone my hardisk containing the centos-5.3 OS and its swap region on to new raw hardisk via network either through ssh, tftp or ftp. How do i do that ?
Is there any Tool for that or will DD command be sufficient.I know that dd command will have to be used on hardisk with already existing partitions and not on raw disk.
I'd use something like...
dump -0vf - /dev/sda2 | ssh user@host "cd / && restore rvf - .."
to clone each e2fs/e3fs partition, you should do it from single user mode with the network manually started and as many partitions umounted as you can other than / of course. the target is installed as a 2nd disk on the other system? you'll need each partition created and mkfs and mounted on the target for restore to work correctly. See the man pages on dump, restore, as I coughed that up from memory.
this has the advantage of properly handling different partition sizes
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