Also I'd suggest mondo rescue if you only have a single or small number of machines to clone. Works well for creating a restore DVD to restore on similar hardware.
On Jul 16, 2010, at 5:14 AM, Robin Bowes <[email protected]> wrote: > On 16/07/10 05:45, TCPWave Customer Care wrote: >> Hi >> >> What's the best way to clone a Centos installation? I have a bunch of >> things that I have customized and I want to simplify the rollout to a >> few 1850s. The current server uses a hardware based RAID1. Disk swapping >> takes way too long and its not practical if the server is in another >> state. >> >> I am thinking of creating a DVD/usb which would install my OS Image - >> did anyone do this? >> >> I do have an option of installing the OS and restoring my customizations >> via a tar ball...trying to find a better way than this. > > Look into cobbler [1] and puppet [2]. > > cobbler will let you PXE boot your machines and do the initial install + > customisations. You may also find puppet useful for ongoing > configuration management. > > R. > > [1] https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/ > [2] http://www.puppetlabs.com/puppet/introduction/ > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-PowerEdge mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge > Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
