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How to clone a linux box?
I have a fairly complicated install on CentOS.
What's the easiest way to make a copy for dev purposes? I'd like to avoid setting up everything all over again.
Perhaps lvm snapshots? a simple rsync?
The production machine is a physical host... A VM would likely be find for development... Maybe one of the many Physical to Virtual tools available would work?
I'm looking for the easiest way in terms of man-hours... Ideally after the copy only the IP addresses would need to be reconfigured...
Thanks for your help,
-Eric
What's the easiest way to make a copy for dev purposes? I'd like to avoid setting up everything all over again.
Perhaps lvm snapshots? a simple rsync?
The production machine is a physical host... A VM would likely be find for development... Maybe one of the many Physical to Virtual tools available would work?
I'm looking for the easiest way in terms of man-hours... Ideally after the copy only the IP addresses would need to be reconfigured...
Thanks for your help,
-Eric
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Thanks for all the great tools.
The R1soft solution is particularly helpful since I can do it without taking my production system offline... I'll have to use it in conjunction with one of the other copy tools.
Thanks,
-Eric
The R1soft solution is particularly helpful since I can do it without taking my production system offline... I'll have to use it in conjunction with one of the other copy tools.
Thanks,
-Eric
in order to image your system and create bootable CD/DVD download mondo for your distro
ftp://ftp.mondorescue.org
more info read this manual
http://www.mondorescue.org/docs/mondorescue-howto.pdf