Re: Cloning a linux box

I do this all the time.  What I do is partition the space on the new 
system exactly like the first system, but where swap should be I 
install, instead, a bare Redhat in ext3.  After booting this bare Redhat 
install from what will ultimately be the swap partition, I then SSH/TAR 
the original system into the other partitions.

ssh root@cloned_system 'tar c / --exclude=/mnt --exclude=/proc' | tar xv 
--preserve

If you only have one mounted filesystem, you can easily tack on 
'--one-file-system' into the 'tar c' line, that would be better.  You 
could probably use cpio or rsync as well.  YMMV.  This has worked so 
well for me in the past that I just can't seem to get away from it. 
 Once you have an in-place copy on the new system, I like to 'chroot' to 
it and fiddle with installing Grub, etc.  After you get the new system 
booting from the root partition (the copy) then just 'mkswap <part>' on 
your temporary Redhat install and reboot.  Pretty easy.

Peter


Ian Young wrote:

>Hi,
>
>A month or two back we installed our first CAM seat running on Linux. We now have another computer that  we wish to set up identically. Is there a way I can clone one computer to the other? We're running Redhat 8.0 and the machine specs are identical.
>
>Best Regards
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