cloning a server

wazzu62 · January 7, 2009, 7:05pm

I wish to clone a RedHat EL5 server. What's the easiest way to do this?

Thanks

Annihilannic · January 8, 2009, 12:55am

One option is clonesys.

wazzu62 · January 8, 2009, 10:29am

I am looking at this and will give it a try.
Does anyone have any experience with clonesys?

Thanks,

csorhand · January 9, 2009, 12:58pm

wazzu62,

I never use the clonesys but i will give it a try seems nice. I used dd command to clone my system before. I make sure that the hardware specs are the same and then i clone it via dd command

system · January 9, 2009, 1:10pm

Here is a decent explanation of using the dd method after booting from recovery CD: