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In case anyone's wondering: |
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http://blinkeye.ch/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page |
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There, look at the link for the GNU/Linux backup script. That's what I |
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use here at work, and I'm able to clone a p4 machine with full KDE in |
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about 1 hour. |
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Pay *very* close attention to the '--excludes' in the script, as you may |
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want to change it to your liking. |
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Works great for me anyway, YMMV! |
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-Jeff |
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Rumen Yotov wrote: |
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> John Jolet wrote: |
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>>On Tuesday 02 May 2006 08:18, Ronald V. Vazquez wrote: |
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>>>Hello all: |
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>>>I wanted to get some ideas from the list on how to clone a Gentoo box. |
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>>>Perhaps others on the list are interested as well. |
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>>>Thanks, |
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>>>RV |
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>>we've used 3 different ways: a program called systemimager (works great, but |
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>>is made for redhat and getting it to work on gentoo was fairly non-trivial) |
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>>what i call a "stage 4", install the system, then make a tarball of the whole |
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>>thing (requires a storage medium that can store huge files) |
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>>partimage (stores each partition as a file) also requires a storage system |
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>>that can take > 2gb files |
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>>of those, the systemimager is the only one you can really do a pxeboot and |
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>>install from. but as I said, it requires some work and an infrastructure |
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>>(including an image server and dhchp server you control) |
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> Hi, |
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> Nothing new (from above), just to add my experience. |
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> Using "stage4" tarball as backup of my Router (DNS,Apache,qmail,ftpd ... |
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> There's a bash-script (IIRC gentoo-wiki.com) which quite fully automates |
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> the task, excludes /dev,/proc,/tmp,distfiles,packages etc. |
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> Optionally adds/excludes $HOME, /home/ftp and compresses all this with |
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> gzip or bzip2 (all chosen from a menu - bash). |
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> The resulting size is ~ 300 MB. Install may be done in half on hour (an |
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> hour at most),keeping all services & configs (minus IPs,DNS,routes etc). |
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> HTH.Rumen |
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C-3PO: |
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I do believe they think I am some kind of god. |
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Han Solo: |
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Well, why don't you use your divine influence and |
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get us out of this? |
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C-3PO: |
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I beg your pardon General Solo, but that just |
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wouldn't be proper. |
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Han Solo: |
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Proper??? |
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C-3PO: |
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It's against my programming to impersonate a deity. |
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