I have a machine running Fedora 9 - and it works nicely. However, recently it had a bit of a hardware problem. Hopefully, it is happy again.

However, I was thinking it would be nice to have a backup machine - in case of future hardware hiccups.

How could I go about making a clone of this machine (different hardware)?

Ian

If you mean a live machine that's updated as your main one is, I'm not sure I see the point. What advantage does this give you over doing full system backups on a nightly/weekly basis? (Aside from an up-to-dateness bonus that is far too small to justify the power cost, assuming you pay your own.)

I use the machine to record audio at church. That means the machine has to be available twice on Sundays and occasionally for Weddings. The software is all configured and it works. I tried installing an old machine as a backup - but I don't know where my install CD is and I am not sure if I could install Fedora 9 now - is it still available?

I installed Fedora 11 - but the audio won't work. Very strange. Also, the version of Audacity I have works nicely for me. Later versions don't work so well.

So, I would like to clone all the software from the good machine to the other. It would not matter that some recordings were made on one machine and some on the other - I'm sure I would get them all back eventually. However, if the only machine is not working on Sunday morning, I have lost the opportunity to make the recording.

Ah. Well, given your circumstances, there isn't any reason these machines have to have much of anything in common. Why don't we just diagnose your audio problems and get F11 installed?

As for F9, I believe it is no longer supported, and running unsupported software is bad for several reasons. You should really upgrade - I bet you can fix those audio problems if you just put some time into it.