Hi, if the clone really is a clone its the easy way to copy the harddisk with gparted. o.K. - so it is my way.
So long and a nice day klaus Am Freitag, den 04.03.2011, 09:18 +0000 schrieb Yuriy Kuznetsov: > Hi, > > If you need to do it frequently I would recommend to look at > clonezilla(http://clonezilla.org/). It's very easy to set up and can > be used in different scenarios: one to one, one to many, only certain > partitions on HDD, whole HDD, completely remote access(I was cloning > different labs with different images remotely at the same time)... > > It comes very handy for sys admin type of work. > > Hope it helps. > > Kind regards, > Yuriy. > > On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Klistvud <quotati...@aliceadsl.fr> > wrote: > 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. > > -- > Cheerio, > > Klistvud > http://bufferoverflow.tiddlyspot.com > Certifiable Loonix User #481801 Please reply to the list, > not to me. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.orgwith a subject of > "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1299177051.22428.1@compax > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1299240430.5041.1.ca...@linux-r2dz.fritz.box
