From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JgnVd-0002f2-Sc for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:55:10 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0658AE0297; Tue, 1 Apr 2008 20:55:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from exchange.gridapp.com (exchange.gridapp.com [160.79.39.130]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9264E0297 for ; Tue, 1 Apr 2008 20:55:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.100.3.141] ([10.100.3.141]) by exchange.gridapp.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Tue, 1 Apr 2008 16:55:06 -0400 Message-ID: <47F2A12A.9060204@wrkhors.com> Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:55:06 -0400 From: Steven Lembark User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080303) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Clone a running gentoo machine onto another machine References: <47EFEEA6.9080402@gmail.com> <20080330210511.3421cd0d@loonquawl.digimed.co.uk> <4ef07b8c0804011345x5aca0346hc034d95365a1bb91@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4ef07b8c0804011345x5aca0346hc034d95365a1bb91@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Apr 2008 20:55:06.0939 (UTC) FILETIME=[AA7CF8B0:01C8943A] X-Archives-Salt: b54f80f6-cf48-4dd6-ae12-3a397f1657b4 X-Archives-Hash: ad82eb0a4b7354e5f482dc54aaf7ea59 > 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). -- Steven Lembark +1 888 359 3508 Workhorse Computing 85-09 90th St lembark@wrkhors.com Woodhaven, NY 11421 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list