On Tue, 29 May 2012 12:35:40 +0800, Joe Aquilina wrote: > I am relatively new to Linux/Debian and need some advice on "cloning" a > Debian system.
Then I'd ask for someone with more experience can help you with this because cloning a full system on different hardware with the setup you describe is not an easy task. Seriously. > At work we have a Debian file server, running Squeeze, which needs to be > cloned to new hardware and then the old machine will be retired. It is a > file server for a small office, has 4 smallish SATA drives and is setup > with RAID 5 and LVM. (...) I used in the past Clonezilla (LiveCD) to achieve the same but with a simpler setup (non-raided, non-lvm system), so the main things to care about would be the LVM volume, the raid layout (I think Clonezilla does not support mdadm, you will have to manually configure the raid) and also the boot loader. Rsync, as you mention, can be also an option but I can't comment on this because I have no previous experience in cloning with that tool. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jq5bhm$l92$7...@dough.gmane.org
