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From: Steven Lembark <lembark@wrkhors.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Clone a running gentoo machine onto another machine
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:55:06 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47F2A12A.9060204@wrkhors.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ef07b8c0804011345x5aca0346hc034d95365a1bb91@mail.gmail.com>


 > Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but I had read that if you don't copy
 > the files in /dev, udev won't mount properly on the machine you're
 > cloning to and all hell will break lose.  Also, iirc, I believe I
 > tarred a running machine (including /dev, excluding /sys) and the
 > clone was successful.
 >
 > Any thoughts?

One other way: mirror the boot/root/install devices
(maybe a single partition). You can make, sync,
and drop the mirror, install grub on the new mbr
and have a clone of the system (basically you'd
be in the same situaiton as if the primary drive
of a mirrored setup croaked).

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-01 20:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-30 19:29 [gentoo-user] Clone a running gentoo machine onto another machine Benyamin Dvoskin
2008-03-30 19:48 ` Hal Martin
2008-03-30 20:05   ` Neil Bothwick
2008-04-01 19:53     ` Eric Martin
2008-04-01 20:45     ` Dan Cowsill
2008-04-01 20:55       ` Steven Lembark [this message]
2008-04-01 20:55       ` Neil Bothwick
2008-04-01 21:13         ` Dan Cowsill
2008-03-30 20:05 ` Michal 'vorner' Vaner
2008-03-30 20:40 ` Tim
2008-03-30 21:52   ` Benyamin Dvoskin
2008-03-31 15:29     ` YoYo Siska

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