On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 05:12, Gregory Guthrie wrote: > 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. > > -------------------------------------------------------- > Gregory Guthrie > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -------------------------------------------------------- > >
I don't know if this is what you're after, but. I've successfully used the tar utility and knoppix to clone a debian machine. After booting into runlevel 1, I started networking and mounted an SMB share (writeable) on the new box (having started it with knoppix): tar -c /usr>/mnt/mountpoint/USR.tar I did this for each directory in the root drive (except /mnt and /proc) and it seemed to work fine. On the new beast I simply used tar -x USR.tar /mnt/hda1/ Then edited the necessary config files (fstab, XF86config, etc), installed grub and never looked back. So that's another option for you, Regards Damien -- Damien Solley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
