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I’ve been having trouble finding or working out a system for easily imaging a linux box. Mondo doesn’t work because it seems to expect that it is run from the live system, I can’t seem to manage to chroot and run mondo and the same time off of a Knoppix DVD. Norton Ghost doesn’t support LVM. dd takes wayyy to long.

Thus far I have been imaging systems by dumping the ext3 file systems and recreating the partition layout, LVM setup, and install grub with a RedHat rescue cd. The problem is I think remastering a RedHat rescue cd with new files and a custom install script would take a long time, and installing grub from a Knoppix cd doesn’t seem to lead to a bootable system.

Clonezilla seems to be the perfect solution. It will image all kinds of systems, seems to work with LVM. And best of all it will make a CD or DVD for a fully automated restore of the system. I just imaged a system today. I will update the blog to reflect the results tomorrow.

–Update: Clonezilla works perfectly. The live restore CD is creates works, and imaging and restoring a few gigabytes of data only takes about 15 minutes.

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