Benyamin Dvoskin wrote: > Hi All , > > I've been wondering how one can clone an entire gentoo system and copy > it to another physical machine , while the original system is still > running ( means , ghost , acronis and other tools that force me to > shutdown the system are not acceptable ) > > So , someone told me to try just "tar" the whole system to the other > machine and "untar" it there. > > The question is how can I do that ? what are the correct attributes and > flags ? > > Or maybe someone have other ideas ? > > Thanks > > Benyamin Could you be more specific about the destination machine? Is it already running some Linux distro, or is it a new machine with no OS? If it's the latter, you'll have to be more careful with the boot procedure, kernel options, etc.
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