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[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Claris Castillo wrote:

> I need to clone a couple of *critical* SUSE servers in *.img files.
> I have two questions:
> (1) Could you please recommend a tool to do this? Some How-To?
> (2) How can I then install this image *img in a particular location
> (/mnt/).

What do you imagine the .img file to be?  A binary copy of the disk(s)?
A gzipped tarfile of the filesystem contents? 

For cloning an already installed server, I usually do:

1) bring the server down, 
2) install the drive I want to clone to
3) boot up a rescue-system
4) rsynz -avH <source> <target>
5) bring the server down,
6) remove the new clone
7) restart the server normally. 

However, this is probably not the right approach assuming your servers
cannot be stopped.  


/Per Jessen, Zürich


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