[20030818] Gregory Guthrie <guthrie@mum.edu> wrote:
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> I have a working system, and want to clone it to a bigger, newer, faster
> one, keeping the old one as a backup...
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> 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!
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My way for cloning debian installations remotely via ssh, aka
getting our hands dirty.
First grab an iso of lnx-bbx (from lnx-bbx.org), burn it, boot
it on the "target" box, set up network & make sure the "source"
box has sshd running.
On the "target" :
1. cfdisk your disk
2. mkfs your destination partitions
3. $ mkdir /mnt/rw/target
4. mount destination partitions on /mnt/rw/target
5. $ cd /mnt/rw/target
6. $ ssh SOURCE_IP 'cd /; tar -cplf - C / .' | tar xpvf - -C .
(repeat 6 for all separate mounted partitions, like /boot, /usr
etc. by replacing 'cd /' with ie 'cd /boot')
Take a nice nap :)
7. edit /mnt/rw/target/etc/{lilo.conf,fstab} to match the "target"
system.
8. $ lilo -v -C /mnt/rw/target/etc/lilo.conf
9. reboot & re-run lilo on the target box.
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