On 12/1/2010 1:41 PM, Michal Suchanek wrote:
>
>> identical sizes then resize the last partition and filesystem to include the
>> extra space, or to fdisk your own followed by cloning individual partition
>
> for this gparted is suggested but it is not included on the CD? WTF?
Hmmm, there must be some tool there that handles the proportional resizing.
> This also means that you have to set up the bootloader manually, not
> only the partition table.
>
> You are getting to the point when using clonezilla at all is of
> questionable benefit.
Yes, but if a tool doesn't do what you happen to want, it doesn't mean
the tool is inherently bad.
>> If I were adding functionality it would be to make it able to automate the
>> partition/filesystem/grub setup to a point where a tar image would drop in
>> so it could do a bare-metal restore of a tar backup made from a live system.
>> But, that's another thing it wasn't designed to do...
>
> Live system backups have issues. You sometimes backup temporary/run
> time files that should not be there or not backup files which are
> covered by mounts. Also tar does not have extensions for all
> filesystem features.
Yes, I didn't mean to replace the ability to image-clone, just an
addition that with a few hints about partition sizes and filesystem
types could reconstruct a machine from nightly backups that you make
without shutting the system down - or in my case it would be the tar
output from backuppc where the backup is stored more efficiently.
> Surely the authors made some notes over the years of development but
> it looks like the source is not meant to be used by people outside of
> the development team, it does not include the notes on how it is used.
I can't speak for the author, but I got the impression that
clonezilla-live is really a side branch of what they really use which is
the PXE-booting DRBL server that would run mostly unattended either
booting or cloning a bunch of identical systems.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikes...@gmail.com
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