Re: How to clone a drive
Mandi! Kent West
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> What's the best way to clone a SCSI drive in a Sunblade 1000 running
> Debian to another SB1000? I don't mind physically moving drives from one
> box to another temporarily.
If you don't have done complex configuration you can also:
1) extract the list of installed package:
dpkg --get-selections > /var/lib/dpkg/status.selections
2) make a copy of configuration file:
tar -cvvzf /var/backups/$HOST-etc-$DATE.tar.gz /etc /root \
/var/lib/dpkg/status /var/lib/dpkg/status.selections \
/var/spool/cron
3) install the bare base system on the other 3 box, skipping tasksel
and dselect phase.
4) extract from /var/lib/dpkg/status.selections the list of installed
packages (it suffices | cut -f1 if i remember well)
5) feed the list of package to apt-get and install
6) untar the configration file on top of other, you can also do this
with a different partition scheme but you have to preserve /etc/fstab
and /etc/silo.conf.
Voilà! ;)
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