On Wednesday 24 August 2005 01:32 pm, John Jolet wrote: > Can someone point me to a reference that explains how to make your > own stage files? It seemed to me that the stage3 stage file was > pretty much a bzipped tar file of an installed system. Is this > correct, or is there more to it? I've got a working system that I > now need to replicate exactly across 13 more. I was thinking just > tar up the install and use it as a stage file in the normal install. > Is this naive?
Partimage is one way as someone already mentioned. But I've used this in the past as well. http://mkcdrec.ota.be/project/index.html Here is a copy/paste from their web site: ---------------- mkCDrec makes a bootable (El Torito) disaster recovery image (CDrec.iso), including backups of the linux system to the same CD-ROM (or CD-RW) if space permits, or to a multi-volume CD-ROM set. Otherwise, the backups can be stored on another local disk, NFS disk or (remote) tape. After a disaster (disk crash or system intrusion) the system can be booted from the CD-ROM and one can restore the complete system as it was (at the time mkCDrec was run) with the command /etc/recovery/start-restore.sh Disk cloning (clone-dsk.sh script) allows one to restore a disk to another disk (the destination disk does not have to be of the same size as it calculates the partition layout itself). A thrid script, restore-fs.sh, will restore only one filesystem to a partition of your choice, and the user can choose with which filesystem the partition has to be formatted. -- Chris Linux 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 17:35:39 up 12:25, 2 users, load average: 0.77, 0.42, 0.38 -- [email protected] mailing list
