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Creating an almost identical copy, for example of a computer installation or a hard disk.

The process of creating one ore more almost identical copies of a single ancestor.

Cloning may refer to creating copies of datastores, like hard disks, but also of a physical computer installation or a virtual machine installation, including operating system, installed software and stored data.

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Cloning SAS RAID1 array with OS partition to a new SATA array?

I have two RAID1 arrays, first one is made of SAS disks and that's where the OS (Win Server 2k8 r2) is, the second RAID1 array contains SATA SSDs (and hold the database). Server is IBM's System x3650 M3 with ServeRAID M5014 SAS/SATA RAID…
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SysPrep windows 2012 r2 for VM cloning

I'm trying to SysPrep a 2012 r2 std edition VM that I built which has IIS already configured for my website as well as some additional applications already installed and configured the way I need them. I have an unattend file, that I borrowed from…
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Sysprep for EC2 instances

AWS' documents on creating a custom image reference using sysprep as one of the steps in the creation process. They don't actually specify if it's a required step or if it is run automatically as part of the create image option from the instance…
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Cloning Windows SBS 2003 to different machines (with different hardware configurations)

I'd like to save time and clone an existing Win 2k3 server to new hardware. Is this possible / advisable? Thanks
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How do I clone a single drive onto a new RAID 1 array?

Here's a little background on the situation at hand. I have a DELL Precision T7600 at work that I'm responsible for maintaining, which just lost a hard-drive, thankfully just the /home directory was on it, and has now been recovered. Now I've been…
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Does `ntfsclone --save-image' attempt to read bad sectors?

I'm migrating from an HDD with NTFS that has a number of bad sectors. I've just run chkdsk /r (from ERD 6.0 x32) on it to make sure they all are properly marked as such. Yet, when running ntfsclone --save-image <...> without --rescue (from System…
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kvm raw disk cloning

I have a kvm guest machine on raw disk that I would like to clone so that I could restore it to another kvm host machine on lvm with drbd. I need to do this without any or as little downtime as possible. All the hosts are on Debian Wheezy. What is…
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Is HD, SSD or SD card cloning a good practice?

Cloning is very convenient if multiple identical systems need to be created. But I have the following concern. As far as I know during formatting of file system and even during it's use a bad disk sector can be marked as "bad" by the file system.…
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how to clone a VM on LVM to another in KVM?

On a Debian wheezy i installed KVM for virtualization and install some VMs on it. I use separate LVM disks because of its performance for my VMs disk. Now i need to clone one of them in new LVM disk. I searched too much for it and i found…
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Cloning OpenVZ container

I have an OpenVZ container on 1 host and I would like to clone it over to my server. both run SolusVM. I only have root access to my server and would like to host the container on my server now. Can I use rsync to clone the drive while the OS is…
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ddrescue - cloning a device

I am running the following command [root@localhost ~]# ddrescue -vf /dev/sdf /dev/sdg rescue.log Do I need to do anything else after that to make the drive bootable? One place said I should do a second pass with: ddrescue -d -r3 /dev/sdf /dev/sdg…
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systemimager and sun grid engine queuing system

I'm about to install our new cluster. I've installed the first node and used it for golden-image. As a queuing software we use SGE (Sun Grid Engine). After installing of the first node I tested submission with qsub and reading of queue statistics…
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How to clone a Linux server on EC2

Hi have a linux server on EC2 and I created a snapshot from that server, the the snapshot has been used to create an AMI, then I created an instance from the AMI. I always get a file system error, cannot mount the file system. How can I start a new…
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Can I "clone" Hyper-V VM's to a physical hard drive then use it in a real PC?

I have Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V. Can I create a Virtual Machine, install Ubuntu 11.10, then "clone" it to a real physical hard drive for use as a real OS in a physical PC?
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If I have /generalize arg, will that remove settings placed in Specialize phase?

I am currently working on .xmls for imaging on mass deployment. I want to do an unattended join to the domain and also get the drivers in the audit (sysprep) phase. But when I go from audit to OOBE, I do a /generalize to cleanup the drivers I…
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