Re: Cloning a Debian system
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Gregory Guthrie wrote:
I still say that dump and restore are the best way to do it. You can
restore over the network. I do it. NFS mount a directory that will be
your archive. when you dump, dump to a file on that partition. Dump each
filesystem (/, /usr, /var, etc) to a different file.
Make sure that you specify a huge tape length or the dump may ask for
another volume in the middle of it. On the target system, install the base
system, then NFS mnount the archive partition and restore. THe new system
should be an identical backup of the original including file ownerships
and file access times.
I did that to replace my /usr and /var disk drives last week, works great.
> I was thinking of something like a boot/recovery disk to tftp the whole
> thing, or a boot disk with NFS, or with (rsh source "tar cvf / -" | tar xvf
> -), or...
>
> I can play with it, but thought someone might already have a proven
> solution.
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