Automatic Clone of Ubuntu systems

[Alexandre Franke]

On 4/20/06, John Schofield <schoflist at dakim.com> wrote:
> I'm looking for a tool that lets me clone and restore an entire disk
> image from an Ubuntu box, a la Norton's Ghost. (But from what I
> understand, Ghost isn't all that great with Linux volumes.)
>
> The idea is that for servers, I would set them up once correctly,
> clone that image, and then simply do a bare-metal restore from the
> cloned image if necessary due to hardware failure or OS corruption.
>
> If there's a tool you've used for this with success, I'd love to hear
> your stories.

Maybe you should also consider Xen ? Virtualisation allows exactly
what you're trying to do.

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Alexandre Franke
GNU/Linux user #390077