Hello, Have you ever checked out the PartImage project?
PartImage was part of Debian Woody but was removed in Sarge for reasons which I haven't looked up yet. But PartImage's website has some static binaries as well as source code. http://www.partimage.org/ Kevin. On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 19:43:45 -0400 "Kit Peters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For my work, I'm trying to create a system that will create and write disk > images. The way I'm currently doing this is by mounting the existing disk, > copying everything in the filesystems on that disk to a directory using 'cp > -a', then copying everything from that directory to a new disk by the same > means, 'cp -a'. And this works well when RAID isn't involved. However, > when I try and do this with a RAID setup (using md), I can't make the new > disk boot in a machine (root filesystem is on the RAID). It always > complains about the wrong UUID. > > I've finally figured out that this UUID problem is coming from > mdadm.confinside the initramfs. Trouble is, I'm not sure how to > modify the > initramfs. I can pass it through gunzip and cpio and extract the files, and > I can then change conf/mdadm.conf, create a cpio archive and gzip that. But > I'm not sure if that will work, and I don't really feel like trying right > now. I wonder if there's an easier way. > > The machine that I'm trying to make a copy of it set up with RAID 1 on two > disks. There are six partitions per disk (four RAID autodetect, one > extended, one swap). Four RAID arrays. I want to be able to store an image > of that setup in such a way that I can take two empty disks, stick 'em in > the machine with the image, work some mojo, put those disks in a brand-new > box, turn on the box, and have the box come up as a clone of the original > machine. What's the best way for me to do this under Debian? > > Kit Peters > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
