Dag Wieers wrote: > >> The clonezilla live project is a really nice way to do image-copies of >> machines: >> http://clonezilla.sourceforge.net/clonezilla-live/ >> but it's based on a Debian live OS which has some unfamiliar quirks. Has >> anyone built something like this on a Centos base? >> >> For anyone who hasn't seen it, it can do whole disk or partition copies of >> windows and most Linux filesystems and it knows enough to only copy the used >> parts of the disk. Among other tricks, it can also build a bootable iso image >> containing itself and one or more images that you can load directly from the >> cd/dvd. > > Seems similar to partimage. If you use Recovery Is Possible (RIP) you have > a small image (77MB) that contains a recent kernel with all tools you can > imagine (with ntfs, cifs, partimage, ...) > > You can put RIP on a small USB stick, or ISO or PXE. Clonzilla probably uses the same underlying tools, plus ntfsclone as the default option for ntfs partitions, but I think it has better network support with options for multicast mass-cloning and the ability to store/load the images over nfs/smb/sshfs as well as local storage. It works fine as-is. I just wondered if anyone had done the same on a centos-live distribution base. One thing that would be a great addition would be if, after the image is restored to the disk, you could drop into the equivalent of a rescue mode boot and be able to chroot to the newly installed system without needed a reboot. But, I guess the NICs might not be detected as the same devices when booted with different kernels, initrd's or modprobe.conf files anyway. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com