I have one system, can I duplicate it?

ForumKid · 10-13-2002, 07:43 AM

Hi,
I have one system that is tweaked, tuned, and runs the way I want it. If I setup another box, can I copy the contents from one server to another so I do not have to change all the setting manually again. I was thinking maybe I could burn it to cd or put it to tape and then copy to new server, kinda like an image.

Does anyone know if this will work?
I am using Linux RedHat 7.1

Thanks in advance for your time.

acid_kewpie · 10-13-2002, 07:51 AM

well you can use dd to copy a partition to a file, put it on a cd and the dd it back off of the cd over a new partition, simple enopugh, check the dd manpage

Flibble · 10-13-2002, 07:55 AM

Yes.

Check out Parted from:

http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/

Flibble

markus1982 · 10-13-2002, 08:20 AM

Quote:

well you can use dd to copy a partition to a file, put it on a cd and the dd it back off of the cd over a new partition, simple enopugh, check the dd manpage

dd backs up whole partition no matter if there's data in it or not, or?

Using dump & restore, also to backup the data only. For example: dump -0 -z9 -f root.dump /dev/hda1 ... check the dump manpage for more information