Hi all, I'm looking for a cloning solution for our Windows/Linux/*nix computer park and ran into Clonezilla. Apparantely the DRBL and other documentation mentions CentOS as a suitable base for it. Does anybody on this list use this solution and can say something about it in the running-Clonezilla-with-CentOS-context, be it recommendations, gotchas', warnings or whatever? Thanks. -- BW, Sorin ----------------------------------------------------------- # Sorin Srbu [Sysadmin, Systems Engineer] # Dept of Medicinal Chemistry, Phone: +46 (0)18-4714482 >3 signals> GSM # Div of Org Pharm Chem, Mobile: +46 (0)701-718023 # Box 574, Uppsala University, Fax: +46 (0)18-4714482 # SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden Visit: BMC, Husargatan 3, D5:512b # Web: http://www.orgfarm.uu.se ----------------------------------------------------------- # () ASCII ribbon campaign - Against html E-mail # /\ # # MotD follows: # CentOS: The OS Maker! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 5106 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090309/d9009959/attachment-0004.bin>
Sorin Srbu wrote:> Hi all, > > I'm looking for a cloning solution for our Windows/Linux/*nix computer park > and ran into Clonezilla. Apparantely the DRBL and other documentation > mentions CentOS as a suitable base for it. > > Does anybody on this list use this solution and can say something about it > in the running-Clonezilla-with-CentOS-context, be it recommendations, > gotchas', warnings or whatever? >Hi We have a standalone network cloning laptops using clonezilla. The person using it says it does what it is supposed to. The install was pretty much by the instructions on the webpage. The computer we use have an extra NIC for a private clone network. We also installed an extra HDD 500GB for clone image storage. What i did was pretty much; 1. Configure nic on eth1 to 192.168.100.1 2. Add packages dkms dkms-fuse dkms-ntfs3g dkms-ntfs fuse-ntfs-3g-devel fuse-ntfs-3g * /yum install dkms dkms-fuse dkms-ntfs3g dkms-ntfs fuse-ntfs-3g-devel fuse-ntfs-3g/ 3. /Modify ///etc/sysconfig/iptables/ according to Clonezilla server firewall <https://sysadm.isy.liu.se/wiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ClonezillaFirewall> 4. Install Clonezilla following Clonezilla server install <http://drbl.sourceforge.net/one4all/> 5. Configure the server according to the webpage Regards Thomas
Sorin Srbu wrote:> Hi all, > > I'm looking for a cloning solution for our Windows/Linux/*nix computer park > and ran into Clonezilla. Apparantely the DRBL and other documentation > mentions CentOS as a suitable base for it. > > Does anybody on this list use this solution and can say something about it > in the running-Clonezilla-with-CentOS-context, be it recommendations, > gotchas', warnings or whatever?I'm using it installed via yum on Centos and it works great. I use a 2-NIC server where machines are normally plugged into the private side in a lab to be imaged via PXE booting but it also works to use a clonezilla-live CD boot anywhere on the network to save or restore. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Sorin Srbu wrote:> Hi all, > > I'm looking for a cloning solution for our Windows/Linux/*nix computer park > and ran into Clonezilla. Apparantely the DRBL and other documentation > mentions CentOS as a suitable base for it. > > Does anybody on this list use this solution and can say something about it > in the running-Clonezilla-with-CentOS-context, be it recommendations, > gotchas', warnings or whatever? >Works nicely for my only purpose - Windows backup. Installs like an appliance - it will stomp on several config files without warning. Best to try it out on a test box or virtual machine. Had to sort through many small scripts to get it to do what I wanted. Main ones I edited were /opt/drbl/sbin/ocs-functions, /opt/drbl/lang/bash/en_US, /tftpboot/nbi_img/pxelinux.cfg/default. Use only one network, shut off nis master, made it a secondary dhcpd server, NFS mount the image storage point off another box. The logger service /opt/drbl/sbin/ocsmgrd didn't work the way I liked, so I use cobbled something together using nc. Because I changed around some files, I have to be careful with drbl/clonezilla updates. I found it useful to have spare disk/LVM space on the server to restore images to, easier restore of a single file or dir. Needs to be equal/larger than the biggest client disk. I had to move it from an x86_64 to i386 Centos - not all my client cpus could run 64bit. PXE boot other stuff like systemrescue, C5 install/rescue, DBAN, etc. I never posted anything, but Steven Shiau, the maintainer, seems responsive to questions on the mail list. -- tkb