> Hello All, > > I guess it is very common for administrative purpose, to dump and restore a > CentOS 7 system. I usually use dump/restore commands. However, I’m having > trouble to handle installing bootloader and creating initramfs for C7 system. > Does anyone know a good document source that details those procedure? > Thank you, > > Xinhuan Zheng > _______________________________________________ I have had good luck with Clonezilla for both Linux and Windows machines. It boots from CD and can put the image of the system in an assortment of places. I personally, dump to one of the large external USB drives. Restoring to a new disk works fine so long as the disk is of equal size or larger than the original.