Re: debian-specific machine cloning
Greetings!
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 10:02:50 -0500 Dale E Martin
<dmartin@cliftonlabs.com> wrote:
> Hello. I maintain a small network of debian machines. I've got one
> machine that is kind of "golden" in a sense. It's running stable +
> key backports for various tools I need. I thought about writing a
> script to take the contents of "dpkg --list" and ram it through
> "dpkg-repack" and basically end up with a set of packages representing
> everything on this machine - then I can install them on the other
> machines that I maintain. But I have to think that this is a solved
> problem. Is it?
On the golden machine do
dpkg --get-selections > golden.txt
copy -r /etc/apt/* to the new machine, as well as golden.txt
Then do on the new clone
apt-get update
cat golden.txt | dpkg --set-selections
apt-get upgrade
That shoud do it. Or try one of the low-level approaches
http://wyae.de/docs/img_dd.php
http://wyae.de/docs/img_rsync.php
Bye
Volker Tanger
ITK-Security
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