[CentOS] EL6: Hard Disk upgrade howto?

Sat Jul 30 03:02:20 UTC 2011
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

On 7/29/11 9:45 PM, Benjamin Smith wrote:
> I have a tested copy of EL6 that I would like to duplicate to a number of
> similar servers, but can't seem to find a sane howto on the subject. TLDP's
> "Hard disk upgrade howto" is embarrassingly antiquated: when's the last time you
> saw LILO?
>
>
> What's the recommended procedure for doing an HDD copy/upgrade from one disk to
> another? Is there a nice, detailed howto that explains this in detail?
>
>
> My set up is pretty straight forward. My partitions are all set up as simple
> partitions, with UUID's in /etc/fstab. I'm not using LVM or RAID.

If the machines are pretty much identical, clonezilla should work.  Boot the 
machine with a 'clonezilla-live' CD or USB drive.   If you can attach the target 
drive to the same machine you can go disk->disk.  Otherwise, connect to 
something on the network with enough space to hold the image (ssh, nfs, or a 
windows share) and clone disk->image, then boot the target machines and copy 
image->disk.  There is also a server version that will pxe-boot the targets if 
you need to do a large number of them.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com