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On Wednesday 24 August 2005 01:32 pm, John Jolet wrote: |
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> Can someone point me to a reference that explains how to make your |
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> own stage files? It seemed to me that the stage3 stage file was |
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> pretty much a bzipped tar file of an installed system. Is this |
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> correct, or is there more to it? I've got a working system that I |
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> now need to replicate exactly across 13 more. I was thinking just |
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> tar up the install and use it as a stage file in the normal install. |
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> Is this naive? |
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Partimage is one way as someone already mentioned. But I've used this in the |
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past as well. http://mkcdrec.ota.be/project/index.html |
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Here is a copy/paste from their web site: |
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mkCDrec makes a bootable (El Torito) disaster recovery image (CDrec.iso), |
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including backups of the linux system to the same CD-ROM (or CD-RW) if space |
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permits, or to a multi-volume CD-ROM set. Otherwise, the backups can be |
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stored on another local disk, NFS disk or (remote) tape. |
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After a disaster (disk crash or system intrusion) the system can be booted |
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from the CD-ROM and one can restore the complete system as it was (at the |
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time mkCDrec was run) with the command /etc/recovery/start-restore.sh |
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Disk cloning (clone-dsk.sh script) allows one to restore a disk to another |
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disk (the destination disk does not have to be of the same size as it |
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calculates the partition layout itself). A thrid script, restore-fs.sh, will |
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restore only one filesystem to a partition of your choice, and the user can |
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choose with which filesystem the partition has to be formatted. |
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Chris |
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Linux 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP |
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17:35:39 up 12:25, 2 users, load average: 0.77, 0.42, 0.38 |
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