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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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Can anyone explain how does guest Customization on ESX work?

I'm using the vsphere perl sdk for this task. I'm cloning a new VM (Linux and Windows) from an existing image and all I'm interested in is changing the IP address of the new clones. In case of Windows, Virtual center wants me to enter about a dozen…
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Cloning fedora 13 across multiple machines

I want to Install the same mirror of fedora across multiple desktops, are there any cloning tools available for this.
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automate server setup with source builds

I have a centOS5.4 server set that I have a "build script" for. The server runs as a webserver that runs apache+PHP for our proprietary app. The build script, basically does a kickstart installation of the base OS and libraries that I need. I then…
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VMWare clients: replace an existing server with a clone

Consider two Win2k3 servers: SRV01 and SRV02. These two servers perform the same function in the domain, and have the same software installed. SRV01 runs without issue. SRV02 has problems problems that we've troubleshot down to the OS. We've…
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copying one virtual raid disk to another using dd

Using a Dell-Perc Raid controller in Ubuntu I have a virtual disk as a raid 0 array composed of 4 physical drives (1Tb SSDs). I would like to copy the virtual disk onto another virtual disk also raid 0 composed of 4 physical drives. I would like to…
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Why Linux "dd" is erroring with "no space left on device" while copying a single partition to a smaller device?

I'm trying to copy the single partition /dev/sda1 to /dev/sdc1, but I'm getting the error "no space left on device" and I honestly don't get why. I'm working on an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) VM where /dev/sda is a 768 GB volume whose sda1…
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When a hard drive is cloned, will the certificates in IIS be cloned as well?

I want to upgrade my mechanical hd with SSD. I have a number of SSL certificates that I "created" and "completed" on the IIS server. My question is when I clone the mechanical hd with SSD, will the certificates be cloned as well?
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HDD cloning with dd

I'm cloning a larger HDD(750GB) to a smaller SSD(250GB). I shrunk the partitions and there is only 83gb of used space. (I defragmented and did a chkdsk). Also, sum of partition sizes is smaller than the SSD size. I am now piping the dd process…
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How to clone Linode virtual machine to local Hyper-V VM?

Is it possible (somehow easily) to clone an existing Linode virtual machine, which is based on Ubuntu 14, to our own Hyper-V environment as an Ubuntu 14? Or is it possible to clone (files, setting etc.) of one Ubuntu 14.04 to an other existing…
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Using Clonezilla Server Edition with multiple multicast restore operations

I run a computer refurbishing operation for a local non-profit I am a part of. I have been looking into using Clonezilla to do network-based image-restoration. I am very interested in the multicast functionality provided by Clonezilla. I want to…
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Openshift - when cloning existing app, updating files on `~/.env/user_vars` raises `Permission denied`

after cloning the existing openshift app using rhc app create dev --from-app sample/live, I push the repo to execute the build. Then it raises an error while building. server reponse: ... ~/.env/user_vars/APP_ENV: Permission denied ... ... Error…
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Clone a VirtualBox VDI to make a second DRBD node

A primary node has been built up in a VirtualBox (guest RHEL 6 + DRBD). In order to get a second node with the same configuration, a VirtualBox cloning operation seems ideal easiness declare the second node DRBD secondary: drbdadm secondary…
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Upgrade Hard Drive - Keep domain membership?

If I upgrade my laptop hard disk by cloning it to an SSD with PartedMagic will my computer fall out of the domain to which it is a currently a member? Doing some Google searching and it doesn't look like the machine SID changes when cloning but I…
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Are there any known issues with NewSID and Windows 2008 server?

We have a scenario where it's not possible for us to use Sysprep with Windows 2008. Has anyone had any issues using NewSID to generate new SID's on cloned Windows 2008 images? Update: According to Mark Russinovich, the author of NewSID, it doesn't…
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Mirroring Server Setup

My boss has purchased 4 Mac mini servers, and I was wondering if anyone knew if there was a way to mirror their installations, meaning whatever is installed on one can be mirrored to the rest. I was hoping that there would be a way to do this as…
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