[CentOS] How to clone CentOS server ?

Wed Aug 26 13:45:16 UTC 2009
Timo Schoeler <timo.schoeler at riscworks.net>

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thus Michael Kress spake:
| przemolicc at poczta.fm wrote:
|> I'd like to clone existing CentOS server. Can anybody
|> recommend any working solution to achieve that ?
|
| 1) virsh shutdown vmxx
| 2) cp /etc/libvirt/qemu/vmxx /etc/libvirt/qemu/vmyy
| 3) cp <old image file> <new image file>
| 4) perl -pi -w -e 's/old image file/new image file/g;'
/etc/libvirt/qemu/vmyy
| 5) adjust new name in /etc/libvirt/qemu/vmyy
| 6) reload libvirtd
| 7) virsh start vmxx
|    virsh start vmyy
|
| HTH
| Regards
| Michael

Hm... Using Xen or OpenVZ it is similarly easy to clone a maschine, even
without having to shut down things. However, I have the feeling that the
thread starter has a physical machine to clone? ;)

Timo
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