[clug] image over nfs

[gbj at theforce.com.au]

You could use nfs but I would use rsync over ssh

rsync -avxe ssh / destination:/new/
rsync -avxe ssh /usr/ destination:/new/usr/
rsync -avxe ssh /var/ destination:/new/var/

etc

GBJ


> Morning all.
>
> I'm wanting to create an image of a host's hard disk that i only have
> access to over nfs share, so that I can dump it onto a new machine that
> has identical hardware. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
>
> thanks heaps,
> -James
>
> --
> James McNeill
> Medical Genome Centre
> John Curtin School of Medical Research
> Australian National University
> http://jcsmr.anu.edu.au/group_pages/mgc/MedGenCen.html
>