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From: Benyamin Dvoskin <benyamin.dvoskin@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Clone a running gentoo machine onto another machine
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:53:07
Message-Id: b36e7efc0803301452t23826dafpe30ee3dfb778e380@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Clone a running gentoo machine onto another machine by Tim
1 It is a running gentoo system in this case
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3 But it doesnt make a difference to me. I want to know generally.
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6 anyway I will try what everyone wrote here and we'll see how it goes.
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8 Thanks again.
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12 On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 11:40 PM, Tim <root@×××××××××××××××.com> wrote:
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14 > Benyamin Dvoskin wrote:
15 > > Hi All ,
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17 > > I've been wondering how one can clone an entire gentoo system and copy
18 > > it to another physical machine , while the original system is still
19 > > running ( means , ghost , acronis and other tools that force me to
20 > > shutdown the system are not acceptable )
21 > >
22 > > So , someone told me to try just "tar" the whole system to the other
23 > > machine and "untar" it there.
24 > >
25 > > The question is how can I do that ? what are the correct attributes and
26 > > flags ?
27 > >
28 > > Or maybe someone have other ideas ?
29 > >
30 > > Thanks
31 > >
32 > > Benyamin
33 > Could you be more specific about the destination machine? Is it already
34 > running some Linux distro, or is it a new machine with no OS? If it's
35 > the latter, you'll have to be more careful with the boot procedure,
36 > kernel options, etc.
37 >
38 > -Tim
39 > --
40 > gentoo-user@l.g.o mailing list
41 >
42 >

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Re: [gentoo-user] Clone a running gentoo machine onto another machine YoYo Siska <yoyo@××××××.sk>