Re: cloning Debian?

From: Manolis Tzanidakis (mtzanidakis_at_freemail.gr)
Date: 08/19/03

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    [20030818] Gregory Guthrie <guthrie@mum.edu> wrote:

    [snip]
    > I have a working system, and want to clone it to a bigger, newer, faster
    > one, keeping the old one as a backup...
    [/snip]

    [snip]
    > 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!
    [/snip]

    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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