Re: [gentoo-user] Clone a running gentoo machine onto another machine

[Tim]

Benyamin Dvoskin wrote:
> Hi All ,
>
> I've been wondering how one can clone an entire gentoo system and copy
> it to another physical machine , while the original system is still
> running ( means , ghost , acronis and other tools that force me to
> shutdown the system are not acceptable )
>
> So , someone told me to try just "tar" the whole system to the other
> machine and "untar" it there.
>
> The question is how can I do that ? what are the correct attributes and
> flags ?
>
> Or maybe someone have other ideas ?
>
> Thanks
>
> Benyamin
Could you be more specific about the destination machine? Is it already
running some Linux distro, or is it a new machine with no OS? If it's
the latter, you'll have to be more careful with the boot procedure,
kernel options, etc.

-Tim
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