Hi,
When using Linux there are several options to achieve "ghosting":
1. Boot a live-/rescue-system, mount the HDD and an NFS-Share, use cp -a. Use the same method on the destination system after partitioning/formatting. Mind the bootloader and don't forget to change the machines identity.
2. Use systemimager. You may have problems with brand new hardware. Should work with debian, but can be used with SuSE as well - needs a bit of work though. Uses rsync, but in general it is an automated version of method 1.)
3. Use an automated setup procedure. FAI for debian, Autoyast for SuSE, ?? for Redhat, Jumpstart for Solaris, whatever.
4. Try a newer ghost version. It may have an improved support for linux-filesystems.
Regards, Hendrik.
Chris Perreault wrote:
Not really a squid question persay...
Any recommendations for ghosting a configured server? We are building 6 squid servers and it would be much simpler to ghost the first one and use that image for the rest. We use a ghost program for our windows servers but the last time I tried that on linux it wanted to make an image the same size of the harddrive due to something about it not recognizing unused file space. We'd be using this ghost image as disaster recovery too, if one of the boxes failed.
Thanks in advance
Chris Perreault Webmaster/MCSE
