In case anyone's wondering: http://blinkeye.ch/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page
There, look at the link for the GNU/Linux backup script. That's what I use here at work, and I'm able to clone a p4 machine with full KDE in about 1 hour. Pay *very* close attention to the '--excludes' in the script, as you may want to change it to your liking. Works great for me anyway, YMMV! -Jeff Rumen Yotov wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > John Jolet wrote: > >>On Tuesday 02 May 2006 08:18, Ronald V. Vazquez wrote: >> >>>Hello all: >>> >>>I wanted to get some ideas from the list on how to clone a Gentoo box. >>>Perhaps others on the list are interested as well. >>> >>>Thanks, >>>RV >> >>we've used 3 different ways: a program called systemimager (works great, but >>is made for redhat and getting it to work on gentoo was fairly non-trivial) >>what i call a "stage 4", install the system, then make a tarball of the whole >>thing (requires a storage medium that can store huge files) >>partimage (stores each partition as a file) also requires a storage system >>that can take > 2gb files >> >>of those, the systemimager is the only one you can really do a pxeboot and >>install from. but as I said, it requires some work and an infrastructure >>(including an image server and dhchp server you control) > > Hi, > Nothing new (from above), just to add my experience. > Using "stage4" tarball as backup of my Router (DNS,Apache,qmail,ftpd ... > There's a bash-script (IIRC gentoo-wiki.com) which quite fully automates > the task, excludes /dev,/proc,/tmp,distfiles,packages etc. > Optionally adds/excludes $HOME, /home/ftp and compresses all this with > gzip or bzip2 (all chosen from a menu - bash). > The resulting size is ~ 300 MB. Install may be done in half on hour (an > hour at most),keeping all services & configs (minus IPs,DNS,routes etc). > HTH.Rumen > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.3-ecc0.1.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFEV3GoNbtuTtsWD3wRArTfAJ9SeCiFXpV+JFoHIxGopT2uy61U7ACdE8jr > h9UPfYllyjG9FTlSq5aSGvw= > =pHpA > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- C-3PO: I do believe they think I am some kind of god. Han Solo: Well, why don't you use your divine influence and get us out of this? C-3PO: I beg your pardon General Solo, but that just wouldn't be proper. Han Solo: Proper??? C-3PO: It's against my programming to impersonate a deity. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
