Re: [opensuse] speaking of cloning....

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Carl Spitzer wrote:
On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 12:18 -0400, James Tremblay wrote:
Dave,
I have four different model IBM's in my school ranging from pIII 1000Mhz
to pIV 2.8 Ghz , currently I use one Master WinXP image for Zenworks
imaging. I can't seem to find any documentation for creating this same
kind of "Master Image" for SLED. I understand that Imaging will be less
of an issue with Linux due to the severely lowered privilege's regarding
installing software into the core operating system, but I still need to
be able to overcome any form of corruption quickly. I would also like to
distribute a dual boot system image for few years. How do automate the
local host name change for Zenworks importing and management?


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As I remember Zenworks like VMware is for running multiple OS in
parallel.


You are confusing Zenworks which does a lot more than cloning with XEN
which is a virtualisation framework....

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Now here its tricky DVD backup will fail over time due to media failure
so consider it temporary, harddrives can fail but overtime they have a
longer shelf life than the ten years commonly assumed for CDR and DVDR.

?! Everything fails over time... (and in the long run we are all dead,
at least according to J. Maynard Keynes :-) )

And you expect to be cloning the same images in 10 years time ?. DVDs
have four major advantages, they are cheap, they do not deteriorate if
not used, and they are robust (you would have to work hard to break one
by dropping it), and they are small and light. (With recent technical
advances giving possible storage significantly better than the current
4Gb, and with recent research pointing to a possibility of a 0.5Terabyte
DVD they may become a much more useful long term storage solution).

Hard drives are relatively expensive compared to DVDs, they are
relatively bulky and heavy (what would prefer to carry up 5 floors a 10g
DVD or a 1Kg drive caddy), being electro-magnetic media they will loose
information if that information is not retrieved regularly, and they are
relatively fragile (they are much more prone to physical shock damage).

I do not think there is a question which is more appropriate this
purpose at the moment.


If however you want to do this on systems which are remote or just not
on the network then you can use mondo-rescue to make an install set for

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This application is not one I know of, but I do think that you are
confusing the requirements of a backup regime with the requirement of
system cloning.

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