[OT] System Imaging

[Scott_Purcell at Dell.com]

Another to consider is http://clonezilla.sourceforge.net/.  Funny, I
stumbled on this just last night and noted it. Haven't tried it, but it
looks like it has potential.  The site describes a number of advantages
(at least as perceived by the authors) it has over some of the other
tools discussed in this thread.


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[mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of J. Epperson
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 7:35 AM
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Subject: Re: [OT] System Imaging

On Tue, March 27, 2007 04:18, Peter Kjellstrom wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 March 2007, Jesse Proudman wrote:
>> I have a particular install of RedHat that I want to store as an 
>> image and copy to new servers we deploy.  I've got a PXE boot server,

>> and that's been working to install over the network, but is there a 
>> way that I can do a disk format and then copy a disk image without 
>> having to do a full install?
>
> People typicall go about this in one of two ways:
> 1) image based, like systemimager or dolly.
>  si: http://www.systemimager.org
>  dolly: http://www.cs.inf.ethz.ch/CoPs/patagonia/dolly.html
> 2) automated installs (like kickstart, autoyast, etc.)
>
> Interpreting your post I'd say start with systemimager.
>

And I'd say start with g4l.  But tastes vary.

http://freshmeat.net/projects/g4l/

Have had great success with this.  One particular thing to note is that
zeroing empty space will have a huge impact on the compressed image size
and time required for image/restore.  There's plenty of info about this
in the g4l project pages and iso.

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