Server Cloning application

[Rick Stevens]

On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 11:02 -0500, mylar wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 09:48 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 10:11 -0600, Esquivel, Vicente wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > >  
> > > Can anyone tell me what they use for cloning RH servers? 
> > 
> > Ghost4Linux (g4l) works well.  Good ol' ghost 2003 works, too.
> > We also use a disk duplicator.  Expensive, but a good way to clone
> > 5+ disks at a time.
> > 
> Is there any advantage to using g4l over something like dd ???

You can't use dd if the disks are dissimilar or the partition sizes are
different.  dd is only really reliable with absolutely identical disks,
and even then I'm skeptical as it does absolutely no error checking.

g4l can handle dissimilar partitions, disks and such and does a fair bit
of error checking.  g4l is freeware.  Use it.

	http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l

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