Re: [gentoo-user] creating an image of the system

[thegeezer <thegeezer@thegeezer.net>]

On 09/11/2013 12:55 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> Am 09.09.2013 08:30, schrieb Michael Hampicke:
>
>> Tar with permission preservation is fine. Just exlude everything
>> in dev/sys/proc/tmp as you said. But make sure, that these
>> directories are in your tar file, it does not matter if they are
>> empty, but they have to exist in order to boot proplery.
> Sorry if I am maybe a bit OT (am I?):
>
> I often cloned systems from or into VMs by booting both systems with
> live-CDs, mounting their disks and "rsync -av" the root-fs over ...
> sure, taking care of dev/sys/proc/tmp does not hurt ...
>
> After the rsync maybe some fstab-editing, checking grub-config ... but
> that worked several times already ... (OK, not automated ... but
> sufficient if I prepare a server inside a VM and then apply that image
> once).
>
> S
>
>
personally i like to add the clone-to disk as a mirror into my lvm, then
once it is synced, i stop service such as databases, split the mirror
and then start databases again.
this lets me import the lvm to the new location practically identical,
of course fstab etc need changing at the other end