Re: How do I clone Computer A from Computer B?
Dne, 03. 03. 2011 18:42:02 je Jason Hsu napisal(a):
Computer A is running minimal Debian with a firewall and servers,
including SSH.
I can use Computer B to ssh my way into Computer A. How do I use
Computer B to clone Computer A? So far, I've only been able to clone
Computer A by booting up a live CD on Computer A and running
PartImage.
I assume that by "use Computer B" to clone Computer A you mean "how do
I clone A to B over the network". One solution would be piping dd
through ssh, as was explained somewhere on this very list several days
ago (apparently, dd can copy between hosts). A less "daring" approach
would be to simply use rsync. It is capable of resuming broken
downloads, and uses compression to save bandwidth. You should create
and mount the target partition on the remote server in advance. I've
cloned (actually, rsynced) data partitions with rsync and recently I've
successfully cloned my /home subtree over my LAN with
rsync -turboSzxpvg /home remoteserver:/destination_dir
Caveats: rsync has a very complex set of command line options. You
should study the man page in detail if you want things such as hard
links and ownership/permissions preserved. You may need to allow root
login in the remote ssh daemon, and then run rsync as root in order to
copy your / partition with the correct ownership/permissions. I'm not
sure how the "virtual" subtrees will behave though (/proc, /sys and the
like); and I don't know whether, for the / partition, it can be done
live. The other partitons should probably be OK.
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