Re: [opensuse] speaking of cloning....
- From: "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 11:42:42 +0200 (CEST)
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The Friday 2007-07-06 at 10:10 +0100, G T Smith wrote:
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Looking at the AutoInstall documentation further it seems that it uses a
XML based script which largely goes through the options described by
other posters in cloning a machine. Real problem is that no mechanism
seems to exist to import an existing package configuration into the
script and support for non-SuSE supported applications and other things
(e.g. Netbeans, Funambol) that deploy either using a bin or jar file is
a bit limited.
...
For my purposes, I want to establish a base-line configuration that has
some flexibility on hardware configuration, so the next time I have the
kind of messy system collapse I have just had, or I want to move to new
hardware I can quickly get going again. Unfortunately, binary level disk
image cloning is not an option, and even it was does not have any
flexibility (it is rare after a hardware related failure that one is
restoring to the same hardware configuration).
For hardware flexibility, autoyast would be best, probably.
However, another solution is simply to have a standard backup in a server,
You fire up a live system in a client (usb?), then fire a script, either
in usb or remote that does the formatting of the hd, mount the new empty
filesystem into the live system, create the empty dirs for /dev, /sys,
/proc, then the copying over of files from the server using something like
rsync. The final step would be to install grub automatically. Ah, no, I
forget: you need to copy over some files for host name and ip, and
probably run suseconfig.
Another possibility is to run autoyast, then run rsync over the result to
install "the rest" of things.
Actually, I like better the autoyast thing: it will handle things like card
differences.
If you want disk images, then try ghost for linux. It doesn't have the
whistles of the commercial Ghost, but it should do.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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