I am getting a new server and would like to avoid the typicall install process of OS and applications.How can I clone my actual server on a new one that has different hardware?
View 9 RepliesI have a file server running in an office that's mostly used for file sharing and a scanner saves pdf files to the server. I'm running the latest LTS ubuntu server edition and I really only have ssh installed and samba. My question is that I've done so much to the server as far as premissions and configuration and I'd like to make a clone of this to another computer and not sure how I would do this?
I'm not sure if clonezilla or something like this can perform this task? I basically just have a very old computer and now I have another very old computer that I want to make into a spare just incase something happens to the original. Any recommedations on how I would accomplish this?
I have ubuntu 8.4 can i backup or clone the system daily using ssh ??
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am new Ubuntu. I have a new Dell Mini10 running that I have configured and running. I want to clone or backup the system at it's current state. I have been looking at the options and Clonezilla seems to be recommended often. Are there other choices that are easer or better? My real goal is to make a bootable DVD that will restore my system back to the point it was cloned.
View 2 Replies View Relatedi recently installed Debian Lenny on my dad's EEE 900A. I initally tried Ubuntu's 10.04 version but it gave me problems with the WiFi function keys. Debian took me a while to configure based on the excellent Debian EEE wiki, and everything's so much saner now.
I installed Debian Lenny using LVM2, spanning the files over the built-in 4 GB SSD and a plugged-in 8 GB SDHC card. I followed the instructions in this wiki to set it up. I was wondering if there's a way to easily clone this system so that if my dad accidently screws it up the in the future, he would be able to restore it back easily. Obviously, he would have to make backups of his documents, etc. on a separate drive so he can restore them back after the cloned image with the basic drivers, partitions, apps, etc. is restored.
Here's the system's info. There are three partitions on /dev/sda (the SSD) and one partition of /dev/sdb (the SDHC card). /dev/sda3 and /dev/sdb1 have been combined to create a Volume Group, called 'vol-1'. 'vol-1' has two Logical Volumes - 'root' and 'home'. The file system on all partitions is reiserfs.
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I'm thinking about cloning a system without having physical access to its HDD. Is it possible to simply copy the contents of the filesystem (using ssh/scp) to a freshly formatted HDD (maintaining the source fs-type and -geometry)?
View 14 Replies View RelatedId like to know if its possible to somehow copy an EXACT copy of my linux from one computer to "paste" on another!
And how would I be able to do this?
I am currently running x86_64 F14. I am replacing the HDD(s) with one SSD and one HDD. What I want to do is a fresh install but pull all of the packages over from current install. I am planning on backing up /home and all of that so I can just rsync it. One of the issues though is that I currently use LVM. LVM does not support TRIM yet for the SSD. So I was just going to use ext4 and an extended partition for all of my filesystems. Can I just make a kickstart file that will have all of my current installed packages in it and pass that to the install? Seems like I remember that from my RHCE class. Sadly I don't use kickstart enough to remember.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have two identical servers, one has RHEL 5 and Zimbra installed and the other is currently not really doing anything. Both have hardware RAID (Adaptec) set to RAID10, identical hard drives, etc. The RHEL/Zimbra machine is set up with LVM2. Is it possible for me to hook them up on the secondary NICs and boot the second machine with Knoppix or something else, and easily tell it to duplicate the first machine onto the second, down to the last bit, or do I need to make all the partitions beforehand and dd each one separately?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have a computer, that has the bad luck to be equipped with buggy hard-drives. Actually, they need a firmware update. This firmware update will probably destroy the data on them. I also want to add one or two other hard-drives to the RAID. What I am looking for, is a tool, that makes a clone of the system as it is now. And then, when I will have upgraded the disk firmware and added the other hard-drives, I just clone the system back from the clone.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have automated backups running on my ubuntu box using rsnapshot (rsync) basically following this tutorial. My concern is how to restore if everything is lost. Since it does not seem that I can backup the entire drive and that I have to choose individual folders and some like proc/ cause problems.
Currently in my rsnapshot.conf I have (see below). Is there a way to just clone the entire drive? Or should I not do this? Questions:
1, Can I backup in a way such that it is a clone of the drive so that it can be swapped with the current drive?
2, If not yes to clone, If I had a total drive failure would I install a basic ubuntu and then replace all the files with the backups?
3, Anything I might not know about that I should.
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i have centos 5.3 , i want to clone or create image of my working servers having centos5.3 in another hardisk so that if my server down i can just put this another hardisk which having image or clone of the crash server and my server will up in small amount of time is it possible or not if yes then how
View 4 Replies View RelatedRunning Squeeze here. I added a new SSD to my system. Root is /dev/sda3 and I want to clone that system to the new SSD on /dev/sdb1 and make it bootable. I tried:
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/ssd_root
cp -dpRx / /mnt/ssd_root
then
update-grub
or
grub-install --recheck --root-directory=/mnt/ssd_root /dev/sdb
but to no avail. I cannot get the new system to be bootable and available through Grub. Part of the problem is that I do not know my way around Grub v2 so well, I could probably manage quite well with legacy grub. So, whats the easiest way to clone a system and make it bootable on another partition? Should I be using debootstrap, and importing/exporting the package list to install the same packages on the new system as the old? or is using cp -dpRx to copy the old ok? How do I make the new system boot?
I have a 16GB Ubuntu Webserver running on a Transcend SMART CF chip (Yes I know all the reasons not to). I want to move that entire system (OS, Files and structure) to an external bootable HD that will probably be closer to 100GB. What's the easiest way to do this and have it be plug and play. By which I mean I can then plug the drive into a new system and boot it up just as it was running on the old system.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm niomi and I'm the first account with sudo. I add an account, bob. niomi can get in reliably on active mode. (maybe relevant?: passive doesn't work) bob is jailed to his home directory, niomi is in ftp-special which gives her access to /. bob can't log in and his shell is set to bin/false. What could have gone wrong?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI was thinking about make a clone machine. I was thinking about use a old computer that have some SATA connection. One disk is source and then I add some other disk to destination. I going to have Linux on USB stick. I have look at dd and it look nice but what I can see it only use one disk to another.
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dd if=/dev/hdx of=/dev/hdy
is it possible to add more then one destination?
I have linux installation which is on USB flash drive...there are two partitions. how to clone it to another USB. I tried manualy creating partitions on new flash drive and manualy copyng files but this doesn't work.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have come across an issue when cloning an SD card.I have a SheevaPlug, which is a low power ARM based computer. I used an Intel based HP laptop running Ubuntu 9.04 to clone the 4GB SD card of the SheevaPlug. The card contains 2 partitions: the boot image, and the root filesystem. I did this using dd directly from one 4GB card to a second 4GB card (sudo dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sdc), and also by dumping the first card to an image file and then from the image file to the second card.
The process worked successfully in that the SheevaPlug seems to run fine off the cloned card, but here�s the strange thing: when I use Gparted to examine the original card, it shows it has 2 partitions. However, when I do the same with the cloned card, Gparted detects no partitions at all. Ubuntu seems to mount the partitions fine as well. Anyone have any idea what might be happening? I thought DD was supposed to perform a bit-for-bit copy of the whole device given the parameters I used, and that Gparted should therefore show identical results no matter which card it was looking at
I tried to recreate my Grub setup after restoring a backup tar file to a new hard drive. Here is what I did.
I created a tar backup of my working 9.10 server install. I used fdisk to create the same partition structure as the old hard drive:
sda1 Primary bootable ext4 (83)
sda2 Extended
sda5 Linux / swap (82)
I mounted the new drive with the newly created partitions on the current system and extracted the tar backup to the new sda1 partition. I then recreated all the directories which were excluded in the tar backup (mnt, media, home, proc, sys, etc).
I then shut down, unplugged the old OS hard drive, plugged the new hard drive into the same cable as the old OS HD and powered it up. It told me that there was a GRUB error.
I did some looking around and found that I could use an Ubuntu Live CD to fix/install Grub on that hard drive. I burnt a 9.10 desktop CD, booted, installed Grub and here I am.
I am having a difficult time figuring out the GRUB commands.
This is what I was planning on doing:
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1. Pop in the Live CD, boot from it until you reach the desktop.
2. Open a terminal window or switch to a tty.
3. Type "grub"
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How to change the resolution of my tv to be the same as the monitors. I mean cloning ..
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have Ubuntu 10.04 installed in my desktop and is working fine. I would like to clone the Ubuntu with all my settings etc to a USB Flsah drive so that I can take it with me during travel.I don't want to reinstall in USB FLASH rather I want asis Desktop Ubuntu in USB FLASH.
View 1 Replies View RelatedWhat's the best way to transfer across one hdd to another? I want to avoid setting up my kubuntu 10.10 instance again and hoping there's a way to easily clone it across.
View 2 Replies View RelatedBit of a strange one, to get internet I have to clone my MAC address on eth0. I'm using Ubuntu 10.10 64bit and have had a couple of strange problems.
1. If I run macchanger after login and set the mac to the correct one everything works perfectly. But as soon as I reboot it reverts back to the old mac.
2. If I use the network settings (i.e., the tray icon in the top right) to spoof the mac, then I get no connection. Eventually it does connect (I'm talking about a 10 minute wait) then I get kicked off after a few minutes.
3. If I edit the /etc/network/interfaces files there is no setting for et0. All that is in the file is:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
If I add the settings for et0 then I get the same problems as in 2. The settings I've been adding are.
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
hwaddress ether 01:02:03:04:05:06 (obviously with a different MAC)
I have ubuntu 10.10 installed on 1TB HD. I would like to back up the full hd, on a 2TB usb HD I have. I would like an easy way to clone/backup the full installation, so if my hd fails I would be able to book the usb hd to get files or do a full reinstall. I have tried dd, but not certain if it worked correctly.Also tried clonezilla and that did not work
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have a 160Gb Hard drive with 3 partitions. sda1, sda2, sda3. sda1 & 2 are just under 20 GB each. the other 120 GB is free space. I have so many 40GB hard drives! I would like to copy (with dd) the MBR, sda1 & 2 to a 40GB hard drive and be able to just use that so I can free up my 160GB hard drives. Typically when I want to clone something, the drives are equal or larger than the original. I'm not too sure about this, and if I use code (show below), will I also get the MBR? #where sda is the 160gb with 3 partitions and drive sdb is a 40GB drive with 2 partitions.
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dd if=/dev/sda1 of=sdb1
dd if=/dev/sda1 of=sdb1
Also, is there a way I can do this with 1 line, or have both dd operations running simultaneously?
git clone is very very slow..This internet is capable of 630 kb/s and git is only cloning it at 30kb/s-80kb/s from git://kernel.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ubuntu-natty.git and I am trying to make a custom kernel. I am the IT for my company. And I am trying to make a new kernel for our linux server. I am still somewhat new to Linux, but I know for a fact over the several T1's we have fused it shouldn't be this slow.
View 1 Replies View Relatedi'm trying to clone a hard drive using dd & netcat.
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on target:
nc -l -p 1333 |dd of=/dev/sdb
on source:
dd if=/dev/sdb |nc 192.168.0.5 1333
However after a while since the process was initiated I get a
I/O error in filesystem ("....") meta-data dev ...block 0x..... ("xfs_read_buf") error 5 buf count 512 XFS: size check 2 failed
Further digging showed that the target hard drive was less in space by 100 kb. Both are 1 T drives seagte but different models, hence the diff in space maybe.The data on the original drive is only 900 GB.
I'm looking for software that can backup all the files in my /home directory including hidden files.
I liked Lucky Backup, but it puts everything in a tar file, meaning that the backup fails if the file gets too large (4 GB I think). I would prefer to avoid using tar/archives anyway, as often I only need to recover 1 file from a backup (an archive holding my 50 Gb of data would take ages to open).
Does anyone know of a program or a way to get rsync or the like to copy all the files in a directory, including hidden files, into another directory ( so I end up with effectively a carbon copy of the original). Disk space is not an issue so I don't need to compress anything. I'm not bothered whether its a fancy GUI-based program or a rsync command, just so long as it can save my previous files from.... myself.
My Ubuntu system drive is starting to throw up S.M.A.R.T. errors. I have two partitions on the drive (/home and /) and grub in the mbr. Is there a way to exactly clone this drive to another one so I don't need to reinstall or re-setup anything?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm using dd to clone a Windows Vista hard drive and recovery partition with zero luck. I duplicated the partitions with gparted then used dd to copy each partition and then the master boot record. Nothing............. no boot.
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dd if=/dev/sdb1 of=/dev/sda1
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dd if=/dev/sdb2 of=/dev/sda2
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dd if=/dev/sdb of=/sda bs=512 count=1