You could probably multicast it, but if for some reason a packet was dropped to one of the clones, it wouldn't get resent, and you'd be missing data. It takes about 1.5 hours to clone a system with an 18GB drive on 100Mb ethernet. Actually, it's probably faster than that, but I'm going over a trunk between two switches that has other traffic on it also. > -----Original Message----- > From: John Hawley [mailto:jhawley at bgea.org] > Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 10:22 AM > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Ghetto Ghost > > > Too cool! Funny, I've been into Linux for about 3 years and > never heard of > 'nc' ... had to rush off and install netcat. When I've > needed to clone I've > been burning a system image cd on the clone'r, then using > Toms root on the > clone'e to partition then chroot, untar from the cd, run > lilo, blahblah. This > way would be way cooler. I wonder if you could multicast > this somehow. > > -jh > > "Austad, Jay" wrote: > > > So, since I don't have a copy of ghost, and I don't think > ghost works with > > Linux anyway, I used a couple of commands which did the same thing. > > > > I need to clone one of my machines to about 10 other ones. > And because of > > the level of customization, it would take forever to do by > hand. So, I > > downloaded Tom's root boot floppy from http://www.toms.net. > The machine I > > needed to clone was booted in read-only mode, it had an ip > of 10.10.220.53. > > I then booted the other machine with Tom's root boot disk > and gave it the ip > > 10.10.220.21. On the one I wanted to clone to, I did: > > nc -l -n -v -p 6666 > /dev/sda > > > > On the machine I wanted to clone from, I did: > > cat /dev/sda | nc -n -v 10.10.220.21 6666 > > > > After a couple of hours, the command finished. I unplugged > the network > > cable from the new machine (since it was a clone with the > same ip as the > > other one), and rebooted. It cloned the MBR, the partition > table, and all > > of the data. The machine seems to work perfectly. I > changed the ip on it, > > and stuck it into production and it's been performing flawlessly all > > morning. > > > > Jay > > _______________________________________________ > > tclug-list mailing list > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -- > John Hawley > BGEA/ITS <=> Network Admin > 612.335.1334 > jhawley at bgea.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >