Valeri Galtsev wrote:
> On 2019-09-25 11:31, Xinhuan Zheng wrote:
>>
>> I guess it is very common for administrative purpose, to dump and
>> restore a CentOS 7 system.
>
> Though I can not answer OP's question, I have question of my own.
>
> Is this really routine (often) task for Linux sysadmins? I used
> something like that to replicate cluster nodes in the past, but kickstart
> would be routine task for me. dump/restore sounds like routine from MS
> Windows world (I hear they "re-image" system if something goes
> wrong ;-)
>
> Am I wrong? Do we in Linux world do this routinely?
>
>> 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,
>>
I have never used dump/restore.
Someone mentioned commercial software - I've cloned systems, esp. compute
nodes in a cluster - with rsync.
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