Re: how to create an image of your debian computer hard drive for cloning



On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 10:11 -0700, Robert Robert wrote:
Dear All,
I was wondering how I could make a clone or image of my computer hard
disk that contains debian OS. I want to do this in order to make an
exact copy to another clean pc with no os at all. What complete free
software can I use for this ? Is there a manual some where on the net
about this ?
thanks


Tarring you install works fast and simple:

# tar cvjfp /mnt/usb/stage4.tar.bz2 / -X stage4.excl

stage4.excl (adapt for Debian)
/etc/ssh/ssh_host_*
/home/*
/mnt/*
/media/*
/lost+found
/proc/*
/sys/*
/tmp/*
/usr/portage/distfiles/*
/var/tmp/*

I used to do this a lot with Gentoo.


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Regards,

Aniruddha





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