[CentOS] How to copy a system?

[Robert Heller]

At Thu, 05 May 2011 07:44:52 -0400 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:

> 
> 
> On 05/05/2011 07:13 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> > Is there a standard way of copying a working system
> > from one machine to another with different partitions?
> You could also utilize cloning software, such as the client version of 
> drbl, clonezilla livecd.
> 
> You could also do a direct copy with dd onto a connected drive.

Warning: dd is not a good choise if the source and desination
drives/partitions are *different* sizes.

> 
> You may be well served by looking into drbl, or clonezilla.
> 

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