cloning Debian?

[Gregory Guthrie <guthrie@mum.edu>]

I have a working system, and want to clone it to a bigger, newer, faster 
one, keeping the old one as a backup...

I looked at a lot of options, (Dolly, G4u, ...) including Cloneit, and 
Partimage, but have trouble with both.

Cloneit; http://www.ferzkopp.net/Software/CloneIt/CloneIt.html
I find is very unreliable, it works for awhile, but the cloned image was no 
good. It also only reports a very small %age of the actual size sent that 
needs to be copied.
(I am running it from a SystemRecover CD - 
http://systemrescuecd.sourceforge.net/download.en.html ).

Partimage; http://www.partimage.org/
I find that it works OK for local image save/restore, but for remote 
("server") usage, it starts, then hangs. E.g. I have a 866 MB /usr, an it 
reports it properly, starts, says it transferred 12MB to remote (image 
save), and then hangs. Remote shows a 105MB .tmp file. Both sides are then 
stuck, need to be "kill"ed. It is repeatable. Since it starts, I think it 
should finish!  :-)

Any ideas on remedies, or other /better ways to do a remote clone?
I've spent way.... too much time trying things that should work in a simple 
manner!

I can't just do a remote NFS copy of the live (booted) partitions (I think).

Thanks.

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Gregory Guthrie
guthrie@mum.edu
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